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Study Links Depression Types to Diabetes and Heart Risks
10/15/2025
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Story summary
- A study presented at the ECNP Congress finds that atypical/energy-related depression raises Type 2 diabetes risk by 2.7 times.
- Melancholic depression raises cardiovascular disease risk by 1.5 times.
- The research followed 5,794 adults in the Netherlands for seven years.
- Each depression type did not increase the risk of the other condition.
- Researchers advocate precision psychiatry to tailor treatments to depression type and health risks.
