Comorbidity: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Rhonda Brown; Einar Thorsteinsson

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32545-9_1

Comorbidity: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Rhonda Brown
, Einar Thorsteinsson

School of Psychology

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Abstract

Comorbidity refers to any distinct clinical entity that coexists with or occurs during the clinical course of another illness or condition. In other words, it refers to the co-occurrence of two or more distinct illnesses, disorders or conditions in a single individual. As a result of the comorbidity, some disorders tend to occur together more often than they occur alone. For example, anxiety, depressed mood and impaired sleep often co-occur, and in this instance, the co-occurrence appears to be the rule rather than the exception.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Comorbidity: Symptoms, Conditions, Behaviour and Treatments
Editors	Rhonda Brown, Einar Thorsteinsson
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	1-22
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9783030325442, 303032544X, 9783030325459, 3030325458
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32545-9_1
Publication status	Published - 2020

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