The association between antidepressant use and glycemic control in the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS).

Introduction: Among people with diabetes, comorbid depression has been associated with suboptimal health outcomes. However, the independent impact of antidepressant use on glycemic control (A1C) has not been well understood.

Research Design And Methods: The Southern Community Cohort Study collected self-reported antidepressant use and measured continuous A1C in a sample of racially diverse adults with and without diabetes who visited community health clinics serving low-income families in the southeastern United States (N=2445).

Maternal education, birth weight, and infant mortality in the United States.

This research determines whether the observed decline in infant mortality with socioeconomic level, operationalized as maternal education (dichotomized as college or more, versus high school or less), is due to its "indirect" effect (operating through birth weight) and/or to its "direct" effect (independent of birth weight). The data used are the 2001 U.S.