Prevalence of depressive symptoms in type 2 diabetic patients with hypertension in China: A meta-analysis / 中国心理卫生杂志

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Objective:To assess the prevalence of depressive symptoms in type 2 diabetic patients with hypertension.Methods:A systematic electronic search was conducted in CNKI,Wanfang database,SinoMed,Pubmed and Embase.Literatures that reported the depressive symptoms status of type 2 diabetic patients with hypertension were included.All patients were divided into case group and control group,according to with or without hypertension.Meta-analysis was performed with Statal2.0 software after data extraction and the quality of studies assessment.Results:A total of 11 articles involving 8031 type 2 diabetic patients were included in the meta-analysis,including 4711 patients in case group and 3320 patients in control group.The pooled prevalence of depressive symptoms in case group was 43.5％ (95％ CI26.1％-60.8％).The pooled prevalence of depressive symptoms in control group was 34.0％ (95％ CI19.6％-48.5％).The pooled odds ratio was 1.32 (95％ CI1.05-1.67,P ＜0.05).Conclusion:Hypertension increases the risk of developing depressive symptoms in type 2 diabetic patients.Therefore,medical staff should pay more attention to the mental health of this population.