Meanings of somatic symptoms in English

Background: Patients with unexplained somatic symptoms are commonly seen in primary care.

Measurement of depression among PLWHA may be confounded by somatic symptoms.

Logistic regression examined how change in somatic symptoms during treatment varied between patient groups.

The prevalence varies depending on the assessment method, likely reflecting the treatment of somatic symptoms.

The patients described cognitive-affective symptoms of depression and anxiety but not somatic symptoms of depression.

Results showed that having a child with a disability is associated with more somatic symptoms.

The role of somatic symptoms in patients with depression has been historically underestimated and underrecognized.

These results confirm the hypothesis that general psychological well being rather than specific somatic symptoms predict consultation frequency.

Methods: One hundred consecutive patients diagnosed to have unexplained somatic symptoms attending a primary care facility were examined.

The presence of somatic symptoms in postmenopausal women with IBS may challenge clinicians to find suitable therapeutic options.

Gender-related differences in GI and somatic symptoms are apparent in persons with IBS, more strongly in postmenopausal women.

In the literature, several authors have raised questions about assessing somatic symptoms to explore depression after cancer treatment.

Plasma OEA concentrations were found to be elevated in depressed patients and to correlate with somatic symptoms of depression.

Objective: The DSM-III-R diagnosis of somatization disorder requires that a patient have a specific number of medically unexplained somatic symptoms.

Additionally, greater secretion of IL-5 was significantly associated with pain and other clinically relevant psychological and somatic symptoms of FM.

Measures of psychological health included somatic symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction and depression as measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28).