0 the fact that people who have a disease or condition also have one or more other diseases or conditions:
The study suggests that there may be greater comorbidity between the two conditions than has been acknowledged.
This may lead to secondary prevention of the psychiatric chronicity and comorbidity commonly seen in maltreated children.
No clear pattern was evident that suggested specific associations between particular attachment cognitions and symptomatology, possibly due to comorbidity in the sample.
Therefore, future studies with larger samples are required to investigate the relation of adverse childhood experiences to more complex patterns of comorbidity.
Eating disorders and comorbidity : empirical, conceptual, and clinical implications.
A controlled family study of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa : psychiatric disorders in first-degree relatives and effects of proband comorbidity.
Another possible explanation is that a specific comorbidity pattern accounted for the facilitating effect on diagnosing depression in patients with concomitant chronic somatic disease.
Thus, doctors and nurses will not discriminate against elderly persons, but comorbidity in old age was associated with negative prioritization attitudes.
Yet comorbidity that is mischaracterized may misdirect therapeutic efforts and reduce treatment efficacy.
