Association between anxiety and depression and all-cause mortality: a 50-year follow-up of the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to examine the association between anxiety disorders and/or major depression disorder (ADs/MDD) and all-cause mortality in a 50-year perspective and to examine specific risk and health factors that may influence such an association.

Design

Observational population study, 1968-2019.

Setting

The Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden (PSWG).

Participants

In 1968-1969, 899 (out of 1462) women from PSWG were selected according to date of birth for a psychiatric investigation, including diagnostic evaluation. Eight hundred (89%) were accepted. Twenty-two women were excluded. Of the 778 included, 135 participants (17.4 %) had solely ADs, 32 (4.1%) had solely MDD and 25 (3.2%) had comorbid AD/MDD.

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SUBMITTER: von Below A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10668159 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature