Letter to the Editor Comment on (Impact of Diabetic Foot on Selected Psychological or Social Characteristics)

Copyright © 2014 Vladimı́ra Fejfarova ́ et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The interesting comments of Assistant Professor Cakir et al. [1] highlight the rather surprising results of our study, which show a relatively low incidence of severe forms of depression or any associated consequences. A query of the authors was directed at the possible effect of antidepressive treatment on the results of our work. Our study showed a relatively high incidence of mild forms of depression in both groups of patients (patients with diabetic foot versus diabetic controls [2]). Severe forms of depression were not as frequent as we originally supposed. A similar occurrence of forms of depression was detected in a special subgroup consisting of patients with previou