Psychiatric comorbidity and causal disease models
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Psychiatric comorbidity and causal disease models.
In psychiatry, comorbidity is the rule rather than the exception. Up to 45% of all patients are classified as having more than one psychiatric disorder. These high rates of comorbidity have led to a debate concerning the interpretation of this phenomenon. Some authors emphasize the problematic character of the high rates of comorbidity because they indicate absent zones of rarities. Others cons...
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عنوان ژورنال: Preventive Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0091-7435
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.10.018