A review of the medical and social consequences of generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder.
Over the past two decades, anxiety disorders have become the focus of much research after years of relative obscurity. The accumulating data has suggested that anxiety disorders may have many consequences including decreased quality of life, economic dependence, multiple somatic complaints, maladaptive personality traits, and increased mortality due to suicide, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular causes. Aggressive management of these disorders may greatly lessen the impact.
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Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, Dept of Psychiatry, New Orleans.
D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male