Risk Factors . Gender: Females are diagnosed with GAD about twice as often as males. Age: GAD can develop at any time, but the risk is highest between childhood and middle age, with the median age ...

Anxiety disorders often remain undetected and can cause substantial burden. Amongst the many anxiety screening tools, the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) scale and its short version, the 2 ...

Pure GAD appears to be relatively rare, and there is significant overlap with normal anxiety or other psychiatric disorders (Fig. 1). The most frequent complications of GAD are comorbid depression ...

In the absence of such exclusions, the prevalence of GAD in the total sample was 1.6% for current GAD (defined as a 6-month period of anxiety that continued in the 30 days prior to the interview ...

Objective To explore the association between biological rhythm and internalising disorders among children and adolescents. Design, setting and participants This cross-sectional study used data from ...

Background Growing up with parental alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. This study investigated the risk of mood disorders and of anxiety disorders in the adult ...

Experts say that a better understanding of the relationship between autism and anxiety can help improve quality of life for autistic people. Research suggests that autistic people may be more ...

Rapid, shallow breathing can be a symptom of anxiety. Practicing deep breathing exercises may help reduce symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety can affect your breathing. On the other hand, your breathing ...

A new report showing high levels of depression (52%), anxiety (44%), body image issues (39%) and insomnia (30%) has prompted ...

Judi Weinstein Haggai and Gad Haggai, who were in their 70s, ... The Israeli authorities say that about 1,200 people were killed in the Oct. 7 attacks, with another about 250, ...

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