Cited by 965Psychosomatic Disorders and Their TreatmentsCardiac Health and Mental HealthAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

The association of depression and anxiety with medical symptom burden in patients with chronic medical illness

Katon, Wayne, Lin, Elizabeth H.B., Kroenke, Kurt·2007·General Hospital Psychiatry

Abstract

Background Primary care patients with anxiety and depression often describe multiple physical symptoms, but no systematic review has studied the effect of anxiety and depressive comorbidity in patients with chronic medical illnesses.Methods MEDLINE databases were searched from 1966 through 2006 using the combined search terms diabetes, coronary artery disease (CAD), congestive heart failure (CHF), asthma, COPD, osteoarthritis (OA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with depression, anxiety and symptoms. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies with >100 patients were included as were all randomized controlled trials that measure the impact of improving anxiety and depressive symptoms on medical symptom outcomes.Results Thirty-one studies involving 16,922 patients met our inclusion criteria. Patients with chronic medical illness and comorbid depression or anxiety compared to those with chronic medical illness alone reported significantly higher numbers of medical symptoms when controlling for severity of medical disorder. Across the four categories of common medical disorders examined (diabetes, pulmonary disease, heart disease, arthritis), somatic symptoms were at least as strongly associated with depression and anxiety as were objective physiologic measures. Two treatment studies also showed that improvement in depression outcome was associated with decreased somatic symptoms without improvement in physiologic measures.Conclusions Accurate diagnosis of comorbid depressive and anxiety disorders in patients with chronic medical illness is essential in understanding the cause and in optimizing the management of somatic symptom burden.

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Authors
Katon, W., Lin, E. H. B., & Kroenke, K.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Group Health Cooperative (US)
  • Indiana University (US)
Corresponding author
Katon, Wayne
Venue
General Hospital Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-03
Volume
29
Issue
2
Pages
147-155
ISSN
0163-8343 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2024439382
Cited by
965
References
89
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • General Hospital Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (K08MH069741, MH 071268, R01MH071268, MH069741, MH-067587, R01MH067587)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
depression, anxiety, chronic disease, somatic symptom burden, comorbidities, diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, primary care patients
MeSH terms
Adult, Anxiety, Chronic Disease, Depression, Female, Health Status, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Comorbidity, Cost of Illness

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