MD Magazine (10/29, Ward) reports, “Patients with inflammatory bowel disease [IBD], such as ulcerative colitis,” may be “at an increased risk of developing mental illness,” researchers concluded after combing “through a commercial database containing electronic health record data from 26 major integrated US healthcare systems to aggregate a patient cohort of individuals with a diagnosis of UC and depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder between 2014 and 2019 using the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms.” The findings were presented at the American College of Gastroenterology’s annual meeting.
Related Links:
— “Psychiatric Illness More Prevalent in People With Ulcerative Colitis, “Alexandra Ward, MD Magazine, October 29, 2019