Increased mortality among people with anxiety disorders: Total population study

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 216-221

  Meier, Sandra M ^a,b,c   Mattheisen, Manuel ^a,b   Mors, Ole ^b,d   Mortensen, Preben B ^a,b   Laursen, Thomas M ^a,b   Penninx, Brenda W ^e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; MORTALITY RISK; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTER; YOUNG ADULT; ACCIDENT; ACUTE STRESS; AGORAPHOBIA; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HEART DISEASE; HOMICIDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SUICIDE;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84988856975     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.115.171975     Document Type: Article

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