comorbid
Psychology
(adjective)
Occurring at the same time as another disease or symptom.
Physiology
(adjective)
Diseases or disorders that occur at the same time as one another another.
Examples of comorbid in the following topics:
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Tenosynovitis
- This condition often presents with comorbid tendinitis, which is the inflammation of the actual tendon itself.
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Fibromyalgia
- It is frequently comorbid with psychiatric conditions such as depression and anxiety, and stress-related disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
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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.
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Autism and ADHD
- Many people with ADHD also show comorbidity: they develop secondary disorders in addition to ADHD .
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Classifying Abnormal Behavior: The DSM
- Many diagnoses are so similar that there is a high rate of comorbidity between disorders.
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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).