AP&T: Type D personality is related to depressive symptoms and clinical disease activity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes three subtypes, Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC), and unclassified IBD (IBDu), affecting more than 2 million Europeans and 1.
5 million North Americans
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Depression and anxiety have been shown to be the triggers for the recurrence of clinical diseases

Researchers tested the relationship between personality tests, depressive symptoms (depression score ≥11 on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) and recurrent IBD in an IBD cohort of patients at a Swiss medical center

Of the 2275 patients (1005 ulcerative colitis, 1270 Crohn's disease), 672 (29.
5%) had type D personality
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Type D personality is an important risk factor for long-term IBD recurrence (adjusted hazard ratio, aHR: 1.

Figure: The impact of type D personality on disease recurrence

This study confirms that the prevalence of type D personality in IBD patients is comparable to the prevalence in the general population
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However, type D personality is closely related to depressive symptoms, and is independently related to the recurrence of IBD

Original source:

Sebastian Bruno Ulrich Jordi.