Oct. 1, 2019

Our diabetes patients offer suffer from depression and we will blame it on the disease, when there is actually a clinical reason for their depression. This association of diabetes and depression is sometimes so great that patients don’t get the proper treatment for depression; over time this makes their diabetes worse, and now we are chasing the patient as they cascade into more and more problems.

This week our intern, Nour Salhab, Pharm.D. Candidate, USF College of Pharmacy, has found one more effect of the diabetes, depression combination. Click here to learn what the combo has to do with cardiovascular disease.

 

Dave Joffe

Editor-in-chief