Comorbidity: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Title
Comorbidity: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
Publication Date
2020
Author(s)
Brown, Rhonda
Thorsteinsson, Einar
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2065-1989
Email: ethorste@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ethorste
Editor
Editor(s): Rhonda Brown and Einar Thorsteinsson
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham, Switzerland
Edition
1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-32545-9_1
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/28601
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.
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Citation
Comorbidity: Symptoms, Conditions, Behaviour and Treatments, p. 1-22
ISBN
9783030325442
303032544X
9783030325459
3030325458
Start page
1
End page
22

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