The Association between Depression and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Inflammatory Cytokines as Ferrymen in between?

• Main Authors: Kexin Wang (Author), Fangna Li (Author), Yixin Cui (Author), Chunhui Cui (Author), Zhenzhen Cao (Author), Kai Xu (Author), Shuhong Han (Author), Ping Zhu (Author), Yu Sun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The depression incidence is much higher in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), and the majority of these cases remain under-diagnosed. Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is now widely thought to be an organ-specific autoimmune disease. As a chronic autoimmune condition, T1D is characterized by T cell-...