Immigration to the USA and risk for mood and anxiety disorders: Variation by origin and age at immigration

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1117-1127

  Breslau, J ^a   Borges, G ^b   Hagar, Y ^a   Tancredi, D ^a   Gilman, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Epidemiology; Immigration; Mood disorderes; United States

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CUBA; EASTERN EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; MOOD DISORDER; POPULATION RISK; PUERTO RICO; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AMERICA; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DYSTHYMIA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249217875     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291708004698     Document Type: Article

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