Week 9 Resources: Diabetes and Mental Health
1. Metabolic Syndrome Canada
https://www.metabolicsyndromecanada.ca/professionals
(Metabolic Syndrome Canada, 2019)
Metabolic Syndrome Canada. (2019). MetSC for professionals. Retrieved October 30, 2019, from Metabolic Syndrome Canada: https://www.metabolicsyndromecanada.ca/professionals
This website is a resource for anyone wanting to learn about metabolic syndrome including both lay persons and medical professionals. They define metabolic syndrome as “hyperinsulinemia, raised triglycerides, reduced HDL and increased abdominal adiposity, which are phenotypic features caused by resistance to the action of insulin in muscle and adipose tissue”. The author also goes on to explain interventions and management strategies including specific diet and exercise programs.
2. Diabetes Care Community Canada
(Diabetes Care Community Canada, 2019)
Diabetes Care Community Canada. (2019). Diabetes and Mental Health. Retrieved October 30, 2019, from Diabetes Care Community: https://www.diabetescarecommunity.ca/living-well-with-diabetes-articles/support-articles/diabetes-mental-health/
This resource is more specific to diabetes alone then metabolic syndrome. Here you can examine the correlation between diabetes and various mental health diagnoses. It also addresses the concerns regarding the onset of a mental illness after being diagnosed with diabetes, both in terms of the difficulty managing the illness as well as the negative impact of treatment interventions.
3. The Global Epidemic of the Metabolic Syndrome
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5866840/
Saklayen M. G. (2018). The Global Epidemic of the Metabolic Syndrome. Current hypertension reports, 20(2), 12. doi:10.1007/s11906-018-0812-z
This article identifies metabolic syndrome as “a pathologic condition characterized by abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia”. Saklayen (2018) goes on to explain has become the major health hazard of modern world. Though it started in the Western world, with the spread of the Western lifestyle across the globe, it has become now a truly global problem. The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is often more in the urban population of some developing countries than in its Western counterparts. The two basic forces spreading this malady are the increase in consumption of high calorie-low fiber fast food and the decrease in physical activity due to mechanized transportations and sedentary form of leisure time activities. Throughout this article there is significant emphasis on the lifestyle choices related to metabolic syndrome.
4. World Health Organization-Europe
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/342297/Comorbidity-report_E-web.pdf
(World Health Organization, 2019)
World Health Organization. (2019). Addressing comorbidity between mental disorders and major noncommunicable diseases. Retrieved October 30, 2019, from World Health Organization: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/342297/Comorbidity-report_E-web.pdf
This resource is full of globally relevant information in regards to diabetes/metabolic syndrome and mental health. There are a number of studies that are utilized throughout the document which forecast the future of the impact metabolic syndrome will have on our health. There are also significant comparisons between diabetes and various mental illnesses.
5. Diabetes mellitus in people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder: a systematic review and large scale meta‐analysis
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20309
This journal is a meta‐analysis that aims to describe the frequencies of type 2 diabetes mellitus in people with a serious mental illness; to analyze the influence of demographic, illness and treatment variables as well as diabetes assessment methods; and to describe the prevalence of diabetes in studies directly comparing persons with each specific mental illness diagnosis to general population samples.
6. Diabetes and Schizophrenia
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11892-015-0704-4
This article identifies that antipsychotic medications increase the risk of type 2 diabetes both directly by affecting insulin sensitivity and indirectly by causing weight gain. It suggests that lifestyle modification for prevention of diabetes should be included as part of treatment of patients with schizophrenia.