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The Distribution of Psychiatric and Somatic Ill Health: Associations With Personality and Socioeconomic Status

J. Neeleman, MSc, MD, PhD, MRCPsych, J. Ormel, PhD and R. V. Bijl, PhD

From the Department of Social Psychiatry (J.N., J.O.), University of Groningen, Groningen; and the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction (R.V.B.), Utrecht, Netherlands.



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   Fig. 1. (A) Clustering of psychiatric morbidity with somatic morbidity due to the effect of common shared risk factors. (B) Clustering of psychiatric morbidity with somatic morbidity due to the effect of the disorders on each other. The dashed line indicates a spurious association.
 


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Fig. 2. Clustering of 5050 somatic disorders as indicated by departure of their distribution from the Poisson distribution.

 


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Fig. 3. Clustering of 2438 psychiatric disorders as indicated by departure of their distribution from the Poisson distribution.

 





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