Background. Depression is much more prevalent among those with chronic medical
conditions compared to the general population of the United States. Depression is …

Major depression, as well as other depressive disorders, is commonly comorbid with other
medical illnesses, particularly chronic and systemic medical illnesses. The co-occurrence of …

There is a bidirectional relationship between depression and chronic medical disorders. The
adverse health risk behaviors and psychobiological changes associated with depression …

Depression is one of the most common comorbidities of many chronic medical diseases
including cancer and cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory and neurological disorders …

Background: The Canadian Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Network for Mood
and Anxiety Treatments partnered to produce clinical guidelines for psychiatrists for the …

A major factor in evaluating and treating depression is the presence of comorbid medical
problems. In this paper, the authors will first evaluate studies showing that medical illness is …

Due to the aging of the US population, healthcare providers will be called upon to diagnose
and treat patients with chronic medical illness with increasing frequency. This paper will …

BACKGROUND: Primary care patients with anxiety and depression often describe multiple
physical symptoms, but no systematic review has studied the effect of anxiety and …

The functional impairment associated with depression contributes significantly to the
economic burden of chronic medical illness. Depression also is becoming recognized as a …

Objective: Although depression is one of the most common problems of medical and
psychiatric outpatients, it has not been clear whether the extent of medical comorbidity …