Association between depression and glycemic control among type 2 diabetes patients in Lima, Peru.

In addition, we decided to use a more conservative definition of depression (cutoff of 15 or more points) due to the fact that PHQ‐9 tool warrants treatment and/or psychotherapy for these patients (clinical depression), avoiding potential misclassification; we also conducted post hoc analyses using different cutoffs with PHQ‐9 score; e.g., 10–14 (moderate depression) and 15 and more points (moderately severe and severe depression) compared to those with 0–9 (normal), and found an increasing trend in the magnitude of association estimates (from a PR = 1.23 among those with 10–14 points to a PR = 1.40 among those with 15 or more points, P ‐value for trends < 0.001, data not shown).

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