221 Psychiatric Co-Morbidity Is Associated With Increased Risk of Surgery in Crohns Disease

Abstract

Introduction-Psychiatric co-morbidity, in particular major depression and anxiety is common in patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Prior studies examining this may be confounded by the co-existence of functional bowel symptoms. Limited data exists examining an association between depression or anxiety and disease-specific endpoints such as bowel surgery.