RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Diabetes, Depression, and Death
JF Diabetes Care
JO Diabetes Care
FD American Diabetes Association
SP 3005
OP 3010
DO 10.2337/dc07-0974
VO 30
IS 12
A1 Bogner, Hillary R.
A1 Morales, Knashawn H.
A1 Post, Edward P.
A1 Bruce, Martha L.
YR 2007
UL http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/30/12/3005.abstract
AB OBJECTIVE—We sought to test our a priori hypothesis that depressed patients with diabetes in practices implementing a depression management program would have a decreased risk of mortality compared with depressed patients with diabetes in usual-care practices. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—We used data from the multisite, practice-randomized, controlled Prevention of Suicide in Primary Care Elderly: Collaborative Trial (PROSPECT), with patient recruitment from May 1999 to August 2001, supplemented with a search of the National Death Index. Twenty primary care practices participated from the greater metropolitan areas of New York City, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In all, 584 participants identified though a two-stage, age-stratified (aged 60–74 or ≥75 years) depression screening of randomly sampled patients and classified as depressed with complete information on diabetes status are included in these analyses. Of the 584 participants, 123 (21.2%) reported a history of diabetes. A depression care manager worked with primary care physicians to provide algorithm-based care. Vital status was assessed at 5 years. RESULTS—After a median follow-up of 52.0 months, 110 depressed patients had died. Depressed patients with diabetes in the intervention category were less likely to have died during the 5-year follow-up interval than depressed diabetic patients in usual care after accounting for baseline differences among patients (adjusted hazard ratio 0.49 [95% CI 0.24–0.98]). CONCLUSIONS—Older depressed primary care patients with diabetes in practices implementing depression care management were less likely to die over the course of a 5-year interval than depressed patients with diabetes in usual-care practices.