comorbidity

Examples of comorbidity in the following topics:

• Tenosynovitis

  • This condition often presents with comorbid tendinitis, which is the inflammation of the actual tendon itself.

• Fibromyalgia

  • It is frequently comorbid with psychiatric conditions such as depression and anxiety, and stress-related disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

• Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Autism and ADHD

  • Many people with ADHD also show comorbidity: they develop secondary disorders in addition to ADHD .

• Introduction to Biomedical Therapies

  • For example, studies comparing an antidepressant to a placebo may use an eight-week double-blind parallel design and include subjects with major depression, but without any other medical or psychiatric comorbidities.
  • Effectiveness studies, on the other hand, are often larger, naturalistic studies that attempt to approximate "real-world" conditions by studying patients who may have psychiatric and medical comorbidities and by relying on broader outcome measures for assessing response.

• Cluster C: Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders

  • Various medications may also be used to treat comorbid (co-occurring) disorders, such as depression or anxiety.
  • Some, but not all, studies have found high comorbidity rates between the two disorders, and both may share outside similarities (for example, rigid and ritual-like behaviors).

• Abnormal Psychology

  • The diagnostic manual includes a total of 237 specific diagnosable disorders, each described in detail, including its symptoms, prevalence, risk factors, and comorbidity.

• Feeding Disorders

  • However, many have proposed other mental disorders that are comorbid with ARFID—indeed, symptoms of ARFID are usually found with symptoms of other disorders.

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

  • A particular challenge in treating GAD is its high comorbidity with other disorders, such as depression and substance abuse; it can be difficult in therapy to make progress with multiple issues simultaneously.

• Cluster A: Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders

  • STPD is rarely seen as a primary reason for treatment in a clinical setting, but it has high rates of comorbidity with other mental disorders (i.e., it is often part of a dual diagnosis of STPD and a second disorder).

• Classifying Abnormal Behavior: The DSM

  • Many diagnoses are so similar that there is a high rate of comorbidity between disorders.