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. 1997 Jul-Aug;11(4):377-94.
doi: 10.1016/s0887-6185(97)00017-0.

Lifetime comorbidity among anxiety disorders and between anxiety disorders and other mental disorders in adolescents

P M Lewinsohn  1 , R Zinbarg, J R Seeley, M Lewinsohn, W H Sack
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Lifetime comorbidity among anxiety disorders and between anxiety disorders and other mental disorders in adolescents

P M Lewinsohn et al. J Anxiety Disord. 1997 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

We examine the lifetime comorbidity among anxiety disorders, and between anxiety disorders and other mental disorders, in a large (n = 1,507) community sample of high school students on whom extensive diagnostic data were available. Three diagnostic groups were formed: those with a lifetime anxiety disorder (n = 134); those with a nonanxiety disorder (n = 510); and those who had never met criteria for a mental disorder (n = 863). The intra-anxiety comorbidity rate was relatively low (18.7%), and was strongly associated with being female (92%). The lifetime comorbidity between anxiety and other mental disorders (primarily MDD) was substantial (73.1%) and was not associated with being female.

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