A 1-year follow-up study was carried out in 77 patients with panic attacks (panic disorder). Of these patients 43% were remitted; avoidance behaviour and chronic anxiety were more persistent than panic attacks within the 1-year period. The main predictor for features of anxiety in the follow-up was
One-year follow-up of cardiac anxiety syndromes
β Scribed by Wolfgang Maier; Raimund Buller; Ulrich Frommberger; Michael Philipp
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 461 KB
- Volume
- 237
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-8491
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β¦ Synopsis
In a representative sample (n = 31) of patients with panic attacks and a cardiac anxiety syndrome, a prospective follow-up study after a 1-year interval was performed At the follow-up assessment 33 % of the patients were in remission, whereas the majority of patients had an unfavorable course Avoidance behavior and female sexual status were found to be predictive for an unfavorable course Within a matched-pair design controlled for age and sex, no difference between panic disorder with and without cardiac anxiety syndrome was observed in any psychosocial or psychopathological outcome variable This result is an argument against the validity of the subtype cardiac anxiety syndrome.
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