title: Is anxious-depression an inflammatory state?
abstract: For several years, the literature has examined the association of depression and anxiety with inflammatory states such as atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, yet this association remains inconclusive. Several possible immune and endocrinological pathways have been postulated that associate depression and anxiety with inflammation and immune dysregulation. Anxiety and depression have usually been envisioned as two separate psychiatric conditions yet they share similar symptoms and are frequently encountered together among individuals. Individuals suffering from anxious-depression are more refractory to treatment and have been reported to have greater disability compared to individuals with anxiety or depression alone. With the current changes in the diagnostic manual for psychiatric disorders placing more emphasis on a dimensional approach for the diagnosis of psychiatric illnesses, the hypothesis presented is that anxious-depression should be considered as a chronic inflammatory phenomenon since it shares common physiopathological pathways and pharmacological treatments with inflammatory states. This hypothesis might help to investigate how different levels of inflammatory biomarkers could be correlated with symptoms of anxious-depression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, United States. Electronic address: acamacho@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Alvaro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Camacho
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008954:Models, Biological
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