Ruth Hackett: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- senior lecturer in Health Psychology at King's College London
- Quoted on
- Health inequalities, Diabetes
- Press citations held
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“Repeated exposure to stressful experiences over time can lead to wear and tear on the body and then those deleterious biological changes can then link to poor mental wellbeing”
What Ruth Hackett has said
“People with diabetes who have poor mental health are at a much greater risk of diabetes complications than people with diabetes alone. The double diagnosis of depression and diabetes is linked with the micro- and macrovascular complications of diabetes, as well as increased mortality.”
senior lecturer in Health Psychology at King's College London · Diabetes · 29 Sept 2026 · Women with type 2 diabetes more likely than men to develop mental health conditions, study suggests ↗
Where Ruth Hackett has been quoted
- 'Brain scars': The hidden forms of sexism that harm women's healthbbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Women with type 2 diabetes more likely than men to develop mental health conditions, study suggestspharmaceutical-journal.com · 29 Sept 2026
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