GHRL and depressive symptom measurement: As seen in Table 1, ghrelin baseline levels were significantly lower in the depression with T2DM group (9.67 ± 1.93 ng/ml) compared with either the non-depression T2DM (11.47 ± 1.62 ng/ml) or non-diabetic (11.84 ± 1.57 ng/ml) groups.