Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Depression and bowel diseases connected

Very often there are depressive disorders in people with bowel disease, Canadian researchers reported. According to experts, contains the so-called colitis inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn's disease and colitis. Both diseases are often accompanied by extra-intestinal manifestations. The researchers compared the incidence of anxiety and other types of mental disorders in 351 patients with reliably diagnosed inflammatory bowel disease and 779 patients from the general population in Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand. The results showed that patients with IBD were significantly higher incidence of panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression. Speaking about the main subject of the study, Dr. Bernstein concludes from the University of Manitoba (Canada), that according to some estimates, about one in three patients with a depressive or causes anxiety disorder, worsening of IBD in an exacerbation of the accompanying mental disorder. Be examined communication mechanisms between these states on.

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