1. Risk Factors for Anxiety in Major Depressive Disorder Patients
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Gang Wang, Yan Hong Liu, Suo Yuan Zhang, Tian-Mei Si, Da Fang Chen, Xiaoping Wang, Fu De Yang, Zhi Yu Chen, Lin Chen, Hui Chun Li, Zhen Peng Ji, Hai Chen Yang, Yi Huang, Jun Wang, Zheng Lu, Li Min Xin, Jing Sun, Jian Hu, J Zhang, and Yi Ru Fang
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Depressive disorder ,business.industry ,Mood Disorder Questionnaire ,Odds ratio ,Anxiety ,medicine.disease ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Hypomania ,Risk factors ,medicine ,Major depressive disorder ,Original Article ,Pharmacology (medical) ,medicine.symptom ,Family history ,business ,Psychiatry ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Subclinical infection - Abstract
OBJECTIVE To analyze the sociodemographic and clinical factors related to anxiety in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS This study involved a secondary analysis of data obtained from the Diagnostic Assessment Service for People with Bipolar Disorders in China (DASP), which was initiated by the Chinese Society of Psychiatry (CSP) and conducted from September 1, 2010 to February 28, 2011. Based on the presence or absence of anxiety-related characteristics, 1,178 MDD patients were classified as suffering from anxious depression (n=915) or non-anxious depression (n=263), respectively. RESULTS Compared with the non-anxious group, the anxious-depression group had an older age at onset (t=-4.39, p
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- 2015