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. 2011 Sep;199(3):247-8.
doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.091934.

Mitral valve prolapse and anxiety disorders

Alaor S Filho  1 , Benedito C Maciel, Minna M D Romano, Thiago F Lascala, Clarissa Trzesniak, Maria C Freitas-Ferrari, Antonio E Nardi, Rocío Martín-Santos, Antonio W Zuardi, José A S Crippa
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Mitral valve prolapse and anxiety disorders

Alaor S Filho et al. Br J Psychiatry. 2011 Sep.

Abstract

We investigated whether there is an association between anxiety disorders and mitral valve prolapse. We compared mitral valve prolapse prevalence in individuals with panic disorder (n = 41), social anxiety disorder (n = 89) and in healthy controls (n = 102) in an attempt to overcome the biases of previous studies. Our results show no associations between panic disorder or social anxiety disorder and mitral valve prolapse, regardless of the diagnostic criteria employed, and that the relationship between these conditions seems not to be clinically relevant.

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