agnosis of diabetes and who had completed the Center for Epidemiologic Studies. Depression Scale (CES-D) in 1999. CES-D scores were categorized as
Diabetes Care Volume 37, August 2014
Depressive Symptoms, Antidepressant Use, and the Incidence of Diabetes in the Black Women’s Health Study
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Varsha G. Vimalananda,1 Julie R. Palmer,2,3 Hanna Gerlovin,2,4 Lauren A. Wise,2,3 James L. Rosenzweig,1 Lynn Rosenberg,2,3 and Edward A. Ruiz-Narv´aez 2,3
Diabetes Care 2014;37:2211–2217 | DOI: 10.2337/dc13-2642
EPIDEMIOLOGY/HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
OBJECTIVE
To assess the relationship of depressive symptoms and use of antidepressants with incident type 2 diabetes in prospective data from a large cohort of U.S. African American women. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
The Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS) is an ongoing prospective cohort study. We followed 35,898 women from 1999 through 2011 who were without a diagnosis of diabetes and who had completed the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) in 1999. CES-D scores were categorized as
