High occurrence of mood and anxiety disorders among older adults: The National Comorbidity Survey Replication

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 489-496

  Byers, Amy L ^a,c   Yaffe, Kristine ^a,b,c   Covinsky, Kenneth E ^b,c   Friedman, Michael B ^d   Bruce, Martha L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Children's Mental Health Alliance   (United States)

^e The Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMMUNITY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE COURSE; DYSTHYMIA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MOOD; MOOD DISORDER; PANIC; PHOBIA; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77951850780     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.35     Document Type: Article

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