Mediocre diabetic women, who are whether expecting or delivered a baby, have the doubled risk of developing depression compared to the women without diabetes, a new study found.

No matter either the women have developed diabetes during or before the pregnancy or depending on insulin or oral hypoglycemic drugs. The high risk of depression still exists in the diabetic women.

“Diabetic have the double risk of depression during and after the pregnancy,” the study’s lead author, Katy Backes Kozhimannil said.

Even those women who had been never complaint for depression also appear at risk. Ten percent of the women, with no prior indications of the depression develop it right after delivery.

Due to the diabetes, many biological changes occur in the body which is associated with the risk of depression. The stress of managing the chronic disease like diabetes can also trigger the effects of depression.

Usually, new mothers develop the post partum depression, after two to six months after childbirth. If this depression not treated with immediate effects may disturb the mother-child relation and growth of the child.

There are number of risk factors associate with the post-partum depression, these includes family history of depression, stressful events, financial crisis, difficult pregnancy and so on. Previous studies have proven link between diabetes and increased risk of depression in general.

To assess the connection between diabetes and depression, researchers analyzed the data of 11,000 mothers from 2004 to 06, who were on the government fund during the study.

In this class, the rate of post-partum depression with diabetes was 15.2 percent, researchers noted. In women, without diabetes, the percentage was just above eight. Ten percent diabetic women without depression developed the condition and just 5.9 percent without depression and diabetes developed the condition.