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Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a disease affecting millions of people worldwide and cause serious conditions. Recently a close relationship between diabetes and mental illness, like depression has been stressed. Maintaining a good control of diabetes will yield to better results treating depression with a better life expectancy. Objective: The main purpose of this study is to establish the prevalence of depressive disorder in patients with diabetes mellitus in a private institution in Guatemala City. Methods: Descriptive study of 77 subjects with diagnosis of diabetes mellitus evaluated in a private institution using Beck´s inventory for measuring depression. (1) Results: The prevalence of depressive disorder in patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus was 30%. The level of depression observed more frequently was a mild form with 43%, and severe form was observed in 13% of patients. Depression was observed in a higher percentage in females than in males (35% vs. 23%), and in older than 60 years old (39%). Conclusion: The prevalence of depression in patients with diabetes mellitus was higher that the observed in recent studies. No difference found between sex and age and no statistically significance found. Depression can also be related with other factors such as socioeconomic, education, etc.
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