Anxiety disorders and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1467-1475

  Miloyan, Beyon ^a   Bulley, Adam ^b   Bandeen Roche, Karen ^a   Eaton, William W ^a   Gonçalves Bradley, Daniela C ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety disorders; Death; Mortality; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; HUMANS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84987623235     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-016-1284-6     Document Type: Review

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