Generalized anxiety disorder in late life: Lifetime course and comorbidity with major depressive disorder

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-80

  Lenze, Eric J ^a,d   Mulsant, Benoit H ^a,b   Mohlman, Jan ^c   Shear, M Katherine ^a   Dew, Mary Amanda ^a   Schulz, Richard ^a   Miller, Mark D ^a   Tracey, Barbara ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA Pittsburgh ^*  (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REMISSION;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84903120313     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-200501000-00011     Document Type: Article

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