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Comorbdity for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

GAD displays high psychiatric comorbidity, mainly with other anxiety and mood disorders. This fact complicates the diagnostic process, its treatment, as well as its prognosis. Yonkers et al. carried out a clinical study with patients from 11 Boston area hospitals. All patients suffered from an anxiety disorder. Within a period of six months before their inclusion, they had not been diagnosed with other types of psychiatric pathology (organic mental disorder, schizophrenia or psychosis).

The authors analysed 164 patients with a current diagnosis of GAD; 87% showed a lifetime history of another anxiety disorder and 83% had some other kind of current anxiety disorder. These data agree with a study performed by Brawman- Mintzer et al. (1993). Among the anxiety disorders, panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA) and social phobia showed the highest GAD comorbidity. As far as mood disorders are concerned, one-third of these GAD patients were suffering with a major depression. The highest comorbidity rates among anxiety disorders in GAD patients were found to be social phobia (16–59%), simple phobia (21–55%), panic disorder (3–27%) and major depression (8–39%)

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