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Gut issues are a common comorbidity with autism, it could just be he had some kind of gluten sensitivity and treating it allowed more energy to compensate for a
by RobotToaster 2y ago
Gut issues are a common comorbidity with autism, it could just be he had some kind of gluten sensitivity and treating it allowed more energy to compensate for autism.
- Waterluvian 2y agoWhen “comorbidity” is used in this context, are we actually referring to people dying because of it? Or does it just mean “are found together when discussing this disease?”
- quodestabsurdum 2y agoComorbidity is a commonly used term to denote that a condition occurs with another condition. In this case you can think of it more like "co-occurs".
- RobotToaster 2y ago> Or does it just mean “are found together when discussing this disease?” this. "morbid" is from the Latin root "morbus", meaning sickness.
- Waterluvian 2y agoAhhh okay. My mind had catalogued it to mean death.
- selimthegrim 2y agoHence’s the CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”
- toasterlovin 2y agoIn common use ("don't be morbid", "that's morbid") I agree that 'morbid' has a connotation of death, so I don't think your understanding is wrong. In this case, a 'co-morbidity' is a term of art in the medical literature with the specific meaning of "occurring with".
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoMorbidity doesn’t mean dying…
- discretion22 2y agoThe Latin morbus is disease and mortis is [of] death but my experience - and perhaps yours too - is that when discussions of morbidity (i.e. using the word morbid/morbidity) arise, they are often in the context where someone is near death or has died so it is a natural linguistic connection to make. Remarkably often I find my partner has a different understanding of English words from me - she was schooled in French and can communicate in Italian and Spanish, but is also fluent in English (though spoken with French mannerisms which seem odd to me as a native English speaker). We often find we descend into discussions of the most correct meaning of a word in English which has a Latin root. The dictionary agrees with her mostly but I have an occasional win.
- lynguist 2y agoWhat are some of your word examples? I recently learned that we use triumph to mean victory, but triumph was originally the ceremonial parade after a military victory.
- TylerE 2y agoThe other really big comorbidity one is ADHD - I’ve seen claims that the rate is high as 80%, maybe even 100% if you allow for very mild cases that probably wouldn’t be independently diagnosable.