Open AccessWhich increases depressive symptoms in obese patients; hypertension or diabetes?
Author(s) -
Şakir Özgür Keşkek,
Filiz Ekşi Haydardedeoğlu,
Sinan Kırım,
Serap Angay,
Gülay Ortoğlu,
Mehmet Taşdemir,
Adil Karaca,
Yoel Toledano,
Tayyibe Saler
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
qscience connect
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2223-506X
DOI - 10.5339/connect.2013.9
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , obesity , body mass index , depression (economics) , beck depression inventory , type 2 diabetes , physical therapy , endocrinology , psychiatry , anxiety , economics , macroeconomics
Background: Depression and obesity are common disorders. Obesity is also predictive of several chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare depression frequency of obese patients with hypertension or diabetes. Methods: Weight, height and body mass index (BMI) were measured. The definition of obesity was a body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)2) ≥30 kg/m2. Obese patients with hypertension or diabetes were documented. All participants had a Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) evaluation. Results: A total of 389 subjects were included, of whom 100, 101, 92, 96 participants were healthy, obese, obese with hypertension, obese with diabetes, respectively. Beck Depression Inventory scores of obese patients, obese patients with hypertension or diabetes were higher compared to the control group. BDI scores of obese patients with diabetes were higher compared to obese and obese with hypertension subjects