Initiation of antidepressant medication in people with type 2 diabetes living in the United Kingdom-A retrospective cohort study.

People with type 2 diabetes were 30% more likely to be started on antidepressant medication than people without type 2 diabetes. Women with type 2 diabetes were 35% more likely than men to be prescribed antidepressants and the risks increased with deprivation and in younger or older adults, with the lowest rates in the 65-69 year age band. The rates of antidepressant prescribing were broadly stable over the 10-year period in this study. The antidepressant medications prescribed changed slightly over time with sertraline becoming more widely used and fewer prescriptions of citalopram.