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Anxiety Linked to Skin Disease

December 3, 2016

Anxiety disorders tend to be followed by skin diseases, according to psychologists at the University of Basel in Switzerland and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.
The study, which appears in the journal PLOS ONE, also found that arthritis and digestive diseases are more common after depression.
Researchers analyzed data from a representative sample of 6,483 teenagers from the US aged between 13 and 18. They found that some physical diseases tend to occur more frequently in children and adolescents if they have previously suffered from certain mental disorders. Likewise, certain mental disorders tend to occur more frequently after the onset of particular physical diseases.  
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