A prospective observational study shows that psychiatric comorbidity is common in IIH and associated with poorer visual outcomes.
An increasing body of evidence indicates that psychiatric comorbidity is highly prevalent in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). In this context, depression and anxiety are the most common psychiatric comorbidities. However, it is less clear whether these are merely a result of the chronic pain and visual disturbances or the relationship with IIH is more complex and may even influence the clinical course of IIH. To address this question and better understand this comorbidity, researchers conducted a large, prospective, observational study.
Among the 111 IIH patients included, 45% had a psychiatric comorbidity, which is considerably higher than the average in the general population. Major depressive disorder (24%) and an…