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In this cohort study, the risk of accumulating chronic conditions was increased with depression and comorbid depression and anxiety in women across the age span and in younger men with comorbid depression and anxiety. Compared with women without depression or anxiety, there was a more rapid rate of accumulation of chronic conditions in women with depression and anxiety individually and an even higher rate when depression and anxiety cooccurred.
Bobo et al. (Mon,) studied this question.