Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 66-70 , June 2009

Depressive symptoms and diabetes mellitus in an Asian multiracial population

  • Siow Ann Chong

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747, Singapore
    • Joint first author.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Mythily Subramaniam

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747, Singapore
    • Joint first author.
    • ,
  • Yiong Huak Chan

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistics Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    • ,
  • Hong Choon Chua

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747, Singapore
    • ,
  • Pei Hsiang Liow

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Centre, Alexandra Hospital, Singapore
    • ,
  • Elaine Pek

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747, Singapore
    • ,
  • Dorit Stahl

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Centre, Alexandra Hospital, Singapore
    • ,
  • Swapna Verma

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747, Singapore
    • ,
  • Chee Fang Sum

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Centre, Alexandra Hospital, Singapore

Received 1 December 2008 ,Revised 20 March 2009 ,Accepted 10 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2009.04.012

Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 66-70 , June 2009

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