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- noun medicine The presence of one or more
disorders (ordiseases ) in addition to a primary disease or disorder. - noun medicine The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a lot of overlap with obsessive-compulsive disorder, what they call comorbidity -- depression, eating disorders, sometimes ADHD.
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And then you see it ` s called comorbidity where you have two diagnoses together.
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Older prostate cancer patients have a high prevalence of other factors (such as comorbidity, disability, and geriatric syndromes) that can impact life expectancy and tolerance to treatment.
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This adds to the comorbidity, meaning they have more mental health issues, because they can't figure out why they are being invalidated. "
The Bilerico Project 2009
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Nevertheless, uncertainties remain regarding several important aspects including impact on patient quality of life, impact of surgeon experience on outcome, late complications leading to reoperation, duration of comorbidity remission, and resource utilisation.
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We provide obesity treatment and comorbidity management for children through a unique family-based approach.
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This guy ... doesn't prescribe Lyrica, since it's a "newer drug that I don't know much about" (to which I was like, um, is it not your job to keep up on the newer drugs? and also Lyrica's been around for quite a while and is the medication most often used to treat my condition, dude), and doesn't prescribe "any sleep aids" (despite the very high comorbidity of insomnia).
Friday! gumboeditor 2009
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Gastrointestinal Disorders also known as GER is a common comorbidity
Ben Goldacre on MMR, autism, and the media Nicole 2009
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Psychiatric disorders ... increased significantly between waves 1 and 2 among LGB respondents living in states that banned gay marriage for the following outcomes: any mood disorder (36.6% increase), generalized anxiety disorder (248.2% increase), any alcohol use disorder (41.9% increase), and psychiatric comorbidity (36.3% increase).
Philip N. Cohen: Institutional Discrimination Is Bad for Mental Health 2010
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Psychiatric disorders ... increased significantly between waves one and two among LGB respondents living in states that banned gay marriage for the following outcomes: any mood disorder (36.6 percent increase), generalized anxiety disorder (248.2 percent increase), any alcohol use disorder (41.9 percent increase), and psychiatric comorbidity (36.3 percent increase).
Philip N. Cohen: Institutional Discrimination Is Bad for Mental Health 2010
ecbrenner commented on the word comorbidity
"In medicine, comorbidity (literally "additional morbidity") is either:
--The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder; or
--The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.
The term dual diagnosis is often applied to the comorbid existence of both a mental disorder and a developmental disability." --Wikipedia
April 2, 2009