Conference paper

COMORBIDITY, MULTIMORBIDITY AND PERSONALIZED PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE: EPIGENETICS ROLLING ON THE HORIZON

Miro Jakovljević ; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia
Željko Reiner ; Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia
Davor Miličić ; Department of Cardiovaskular Diseases. University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia
Željka Crnčević ; Iniversity Department of Endocrinology, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

This rewiew focused first on conceptual chaos and different connotations in psychosomatic medicine, then on new perspectives on comorbidity and multimorbidity, especially from epigenetics perspective. Comorbidity is one of the greatest research and clinical challenges to contemporary psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. Recently altered gene expression due to epigenetic regulation has been implicated in the developement of multifarious mental disorders and somatic diseases. The potential relevance of epigenetic for better understanding and more succesful treatment of comorbidity and multimorbidity is described.

Keywords

comorbidity; personalised medicine; psychosomatic; epigenetic

Hrčak ID:

55652

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/55652

Publication date:

30.6.2010.

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