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Mental healthcare ‘not an optional add-on’ for patients with IBD

Psychiatric disorders present in patients with inflammatory bowel disease both before and after diagnosis, according to a study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. "Earlier studies have shown an association between IBD and psychiatric disease, but several pressing issues remained," Jonas F.

Mental healthcare ‘not an optional add-on’ for patients with IBD

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Psychiatric disorders present in patients with inflammatory bowel disease both before and after diagnosis, according to a study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

"Earlier studies have shown an association between IBD and psychiatric disease, but several pressing issues remained," Jonas F.

Ludvigsson, MD, PhD, professor of medical epidemiology and biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet, told Healio.

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Psychiatric disorders present in patients with inflammatory bowel disease both before and after diagnosis, according to a study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. "Earlier studies have shown an association between IBD and psychiatric disease, but several pressing issues remained," Jonas F. Ludvigsson, MD, PhD, professor of medical epidemiology and biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet, told Healio.

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  • how long the risk persisted and if it extended beyond the commonly studied anxiety and
  • "We wanted to understand when the risk increase for psychiatric disease starts...

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