Late-onset depression is increasingly recognized as a major challenge in older cancer survivors, who show a higher prevalence ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease of the CNS, with highly heterogeneous outcomes. Most efforts to understand this heterogeneity have focused on disease- ...

Comorbidity is a medical term that you may have heard your doctor use. It describes the existence of more than one disease or condition within your body at the same time. Comorbidities are usually ...

You may come across the word “comorbidity” when searching the internet for information about a medical condition or when talking with your doctor. Like many medical terms, the word “comorbidity” can ...

Psychiatric disorders previously believed to be unrelated demonstrated high levels of comorbidity, suggesting a shared underlying “risk architecture.” The risk of developing a comorbid mental health ...

Depression frequently co-occurs with other mental health conditions like anxiety, substance use disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, which can complicate ...

BACKGROUND: Comorbidity indexes derived from administrative databases are essential tools of research in global health. We sought to develop and validate a novel cardiac-specific comorbidity index, ...

Not only is bipolar disorder a chronic, severe psychiatric disorder, it is also expensive to treat and expensive to society. An estimate of the total cost of bipolar disorder made more than a decade ...