Changing trends in coding for depression among the UK IBD population: reply from authors

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Isabelle Vallerand et al. Gut. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar;69(3):607.

doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-318405. Epub 2019 Feb 21.

¹ Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Keywords: inflammatory bowel disease.

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Competing interests: None declared.

Depression increases the risk of inflammatory bowel disease, which may be mitigated by the use of antidepressants in the treatment of depression.
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Changing trends in coding for depression among the UK inflammatory bowel disease population.
Blackwell J, Saxena S, Pollok RC. Blackwell J, et al. Gut. 2020 Mar;69(3):606-607. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-318296. Epub 2019 Feb 13. Gut. 2020. PMID: 30760487 No abstract available.