Comorbidity refers to any distinct clinical entity that coexists with or occurs during the clinical course of another illness or condition. In other words, it refers to the co-occurrence of two or more distinct illnesses, disorders or conditions in a single individual. As a result of the comorbidity, some disorders tend to occur together more often than they occur alone. For example, anxiety, depressed mood and impaired sleep often co-occur, and in this instance, the co-occurrence appears to be the rule rather than the exception.
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Brown, R., & Thorsteinsson, E. (2019). Comorbidity: What is it and why is it important? In Comorbidity: Symptoms, Conditions, Behavior and Treatments (pp. 1–22). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32545-9_1
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