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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 22.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2010 Nov 22;170(21):1884–1891. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.356

Table 4.

Relative risk (95% CI) of incident clinical depression according to diabetes status between 1996 and 2006

Confirmed diabetes

Outcome
(Clinical Depression)
No (ref) Yes Yes, without any
hypoglycemic
medications
Yes, with oral
hypoglycemic
agents
Yes, with
insulin therapy
No. of cases/person-yrs 6818/446641 597/28081 228/11390 262/12599 107/4094
Incident rate,a per 1000 person-yrs 15.3 21.3 20.0 20.8 26.2
Age-adjusted modela 1.00 1.44 (1.33–1.57) 1.36 (1.19–1.55) 1.42 (1.25–1.60) 1.78 (1.47–2.15)
Basic modelb 1.00 1.43 (1.31–1.56) 1.34 (1.18–1.53) 1.40 (1.24–1.59) 1.75 (1.45–2.12)
Multivariable-adjusted without BMIc 1.00 1.34 (1.23–1.46) 1.28 (1.12–1.46) 1.30 (1.15–1.48) 1.61 (1.32–1.95)
Multivariable-adjusted with BMId 1.00 1.29 (1.18–1.40) 1.25 (1.09–1.42) 1.24 (1.09–1.41) 1.53 (1.26–1.85)

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.

a

Adjusted for age in 5-year categories.

b

Adjusted for age in 5-year categories, family history of diabetes, and marital status (yes/no).

c

Adjusted for the terms in the basic model and lifestyle factors,, including alcohol consumption (never, 0–4.9 g/d, 5+ g/d), smoking status (never/past/current), physical activity level (<9, ≥9 MET-hrs/wk), coffee (<1, 1–3, 4+ cups/d), whole grain (<10, 10–19, 20+ g/d), red/processed meat (<1, 1–1.9, 2+ servings/d), soft drinks (<1, 1–2, 3+ cans/wk).

d

Further adjusted for body mass index categories (<25, 25.0–29.9, ≥30 kg/m2).