Association between depression and diabetes amongst adults in Bangladesh: a hospital based case-control study

• Main Authors: Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam (Author), Uta Ferrari (Author), Jochen Seissler (Author), Louis Niessen (Author), Andreas Lechner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

A matched case-control study was conducted among 591 consecutive patients with diabetes attending a tertiary hospital in Dhaka and 591 controls matched for age, sex and area of residence without diabetes not related with the index-case. Depression was measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire-...