“…DM and deprivation is, no doubt, a twin problem in Arad County. The association between DM and HTN with depression has been well known for at least three decades [24,25,26,27]. DM and HTN frequently occur together; there is substantial overlap between diabetes and hypertension in etiology and disease mechanisms because obesity, inflammation, oxidative stress, and insulin resistance are thought to be the common pathways [28][29][30][31].…”