Link Between Inflammatory Bowel Disease & Depression Is Bidirectional
People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are nine times more likely to develop depression than the general population, and their non-IBD family members are twice as likely to develop depression. People with depression are twice as likely to develop IBD, and their non-depressed family members were 1.5 times more likely to develop IBD.
In a study to examine the relationship between depression and IBD, researchers monitored the incidence of depression among 422 people with IBD, 537 of their unaffected siblings, and …
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