Borovcanin MM, Vesic K, Petrovic I, Jovanovic IP, Mijailović NR. Diabetes mellitus type 2 as an underlying, comorbid or consequent state of mental disorders. World J Diabetes 2023; 14(5): 481-493 [PMID: 37273248 DOI: 10.4239/wjd.v14.i5.481]
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Milica M Borovcanin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Svetozara Markovica 69, Kragujevac 34 000, Serbia. milicaborovcanin@yahoo.com
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Psychiatry
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World J Diabetes. May 15, 2023; 14(5): 481-493 Published online May 15, 2023. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v14.i5.481
Diabetes mellitus type 2 as an underlying, comorbid or consequent state of mental disorders
Milica M Borovcanin, Katarina Vesic, Ivica Petrovic, Ivan P Jovanovic, Nataša R Mijailović
Milica M Borovcanin, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac 34 000, Serbia
Katarina Vesic, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac 34 000, Serbia
Ivica Petrovic, Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac 34 000, Serbia
Ivan P Jovanovic, Center for Molecular Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac 34 000, Serbia
Nataša R Mijailović, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac 34 000, Serbia
Author contributions: Borovcanin MM presented the concept of the manuscript and discussed it with all contributors; authors contributed equally to the writing subsections by their specific competencies; Borovcanin MM wrote the preliminary version; and all contributors gave suggestions and approval for the final version.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Milica M Borovcanin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Svetozara Markovica 69, Kragujevac 34 000, Serbia. milicaborovcanin@yahoo.com
Received: December 14, 2022 Peer-review started: December 14, 2022 First decision: March 14, 2023 Revised: March 21, 2023 Accepted: April 12, 2023 Article in press: April 12, 2023 Published online: May 15, 2023
Core Tip
Core Tip: Mental disorders and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are common, chronic, and frequently comorbid diseases that contribute significantly to global disability and mortality. Substantial evidence on the association between mental disorders and T2DM has been gathered over the past decade. In this review, we presented the latest cellular and molecular mechanisms of the shared pathways of T2DM and mental disorders, including neuroendocrine alterations and inflammation, immune response, oxidative stress, gut dysbiosis and gut-brain axis dysregulation, along with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation. The bidirectional link between mental disorders and T2DM underlines the importance of treating these disorders together rather than separately.
