Christiane E Whitehouse1, John D Fisk1, Charles N Bernstein1, Lindsay I Berrigan1, James M Bolton1, Lesley A Graff1, Carol A Hitchon1, James J Marriott1, Christine A Peschken1, Jitender Sareen1, John R Walker1, Sherry H Stewart1, Ruth Ann Marrie2. 1. From the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience (C.E.W., J.D.F., S.H.S.), Psychiatry (J.D.F.), and Medicine (J.D.F.), Dalhousie University; Nova Scotia Health Authority (J.D.F.), Halifax; Departments of Internal Medicine (C.N.B., J.J.M., C.A.P., C.A.H., R.A.M.), Psychiatry (J.M.B., J.S.), Clinical Health Psychology (L.A.G., J.R.W.), and Community Health Sciences (R.A.M.), Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; and Department of Psychology (L.I.B.), St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada. 2. From the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience (C.E.W., J.D.F., S.H.S.), Psychiatry (J.D.F.), and Medicine (J.D.F.), Dalhousie University; Nova Scotia Health Authority (J.D.F.), Halifax; Departments of Internal Medicine (C.N.B., J.J.M., C.A.P., C.A.H., R.A.M.), Psychiatry (J.M.B., J.S.), Clinical Health Psychology (L.A.G., J.R.W.), and Community Health Sciences (R.A.M.), Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; and Department of Psychology (L.I.B.), St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada. rmarrie@hsc.mb.ca.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether anxiety and depression are associated with cognition in multiple sclerosis (MS), and whether these associations are similar in other immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID; including inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]) and in anxious/depressed individuals (ANX/DEP) without an IMID. METHODS: Participants (MS: n = 255; IBD: n = 247; RA: n = 154; ANX/DEP: n = 308) completed a structured psychiatric interview, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and cognitive testing, including the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, the California Verbal Learning Test, and Letter Number Sequencing test. Test scores were converted to age-, sex-, and education-adjusted z scores. We evaluated associations of anxiety and depression with the cognitive z scores using multivariate linear models, adjusting for disease cohort. RESULTS: All cohorts exhibited higher rates of impairment (i.e., z less than or equal to -1.5) in the domains of processing speed, verbal learning, and delayed recall memory relative to general population norms. Higher levels of anxiety symptoms were associated with slower processing speed, lower verbal learning, and lower working memory performance (all p < 0.001); higher levels of depression symptoms were associated with slower processing speed. These associations did not differ across cohorts. CONCLUSION: Anxiety and depression are associated with lower cognitive function in MS, with a similar pattern observed in persons with other IMID, including IBD and RA, and persons without an IMID. Managing symptoms of anxiety and of depression in MS, as well as other IMIDs, is important to mitigate their effect on cognition.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether anxiety and depression are associated with cognition in multiple sclerosis (MS), and whether these associations are similar in other immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID; including inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]) and in anxious/depressed individuals (ANX/DEP) without an IMID. METHODS:Participants (MS: n = 255; IBD: n = 247; RA: n = 154; ANX/DEP: n = 308) completed a structured psychiatric interview, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and cognitive testing, including the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, the California Verbal Learning Test, and Letter Number Sequencing test. Test scores were converted to age-, sex-, and education-adjusted z scores. We evaluated associations of anxiety and depression with the cognitive z scores using multivariate linear models, adjusting for disease cohort. RESULTS: All cohorts exhibited higher rates of impairment (i.e., z less than or equal to -1.5) in the domains of processing speed, verbal learning, and delayed recall memory relative to general population norms. Higher levels of anxiety symptoms were associated with slower processing speed, lower verbal learning, and lower working memory performance (all p < 0.001); higher levels of depression symptoms were associated with slower processing speed. These associations did not differ across cohorts. CONCLUSION:Anxiety and depression are associated with lower cognitive function in MS, with a similar pattern observed in persons with other IMID, including IBD and RA, and persons without an IMID. Managing symptoms of anxiety and of depression in MS, as well as other IMIDs, is important to mitigate their effect on cognition.
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