Journal article
Excess Mortality in Panic Disorder: A Comparison With Primary Unipolar Depression
Archives of general psychiatry, Vol.39(6), pp.701-703
06/01/1982
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290060051010
PMID: 7092503
Abstract
• We located 113 former inpatients with panic disorder 35 years after index admission. According to age-and sex-specific Iowa population figures, patients with panic disorder had significant excess mortality due to death by unnatural causes. Other studies suggest that secondary depression and alcoholism may have had a role in these deaths. Men with panic disorder also exhibited excess mortality due to circulatory system disease. In an age-and sex-matched patient group with primary unipolar depression, both men and women showed excess mortality. Suicide accounted for 20.0% and 16.2% of deaths in the panic disorder and primary depression groups, respectively. We conclude that panic disorder accounted for much of the excess mortality formerly noted in the "neuroses."
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Excess Mortality in Panic Disorder: A Comparison With Primary Unipolar Depression
- Creators
- William CoryellRussell NoyesJohn Clancy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Archives of general psychiatry, Vol.39(6), pp.701-703
- DOI
- 10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290060051010
- PMID
- 7092503
- NLM abbreviation
- Arch Gen Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 0003-990X
- eISSN
- 1538-3636
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/1982
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984003942702771
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