Depression May Up Risk Of Arthritis, Find Study

Arthritis and diseases of the digestive system are more common after depression, while anxiety disorders tend to be followed by skin diseases, a new study was warned. For the first time, psychologists at the University of Basel in Switzerland and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany have identified temporal patterns in young people. If physical and mental disorder systematically co-occur from an early age, there is a risk that the sick child or adolescent will suffer from untoward developments. A research group led by Marion Tegethoff in collaboration with Professor Gunther Meinlschmidt examined the temporal pattern and relationship between physical diseases and mental disorders. They analyzed data from a representative sample of 6,483 teenagers from the US aged between 13 and 18. It showed that affective disorders such as depression were frequently followed by arthritis and diseases of the digestive system, while the same relationship existed between anxiety disorders and skin diseases.