HealthDay (9/27, Murez) reports that research suggests “psychiatric conditions like anxiety and depression may emerge long before classic…symptoms” of multiple sclerosis (MS). Researchers found that patients with MS “experienced mental illness at nearly twice the rate of the general population, 28% compared to 15%.” Additionally, “physician and psychiatrist visits, prescriptions for these conditions and related hospitalizations were…consistently higher among” patients with MS, and “in each of the five years leading up to the onset of disease, that gap grew.” The findings were published in Neurology.
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— “Emotional Issues Could Be Early Sign of MS,”Cara Murez, HealthDay , September 27, 2023