Psychological Comorbidity and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity: Cause or Effect?

David J. Gracie; Alexander C. Ford

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2016.02.007

doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2016.02.007

Review paper

Psychological Comorbidity and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity: Cause or Effect?

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Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology11.60

Volume: 14, Issue: 7, Pages: 1061 - 1062

Published: Jul 1, 2016

Abstract

We read the recently published article by Mikocka-Walus et al1Mikocka-Walus A. et al.Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2016; (Epub ahead of print)Google Scholar with interest. The authors described a temporal relationship between the presence of anxiety and depression, and the onset of clinical disease activity, in a large cohort of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients with prospectively collected data. Previous studies have examined this issue...