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Anxiety disorders and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Miloyan, Beyon, Bulley, Adam, Bandeen-Roche, Karen, Eaton, William W., Gonçalves-Bradley, Daniela C.·2016·Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies that examined the relationship between anxiety disorders, or clinically significant anxiety symptoms, at baseline and all-cause mortality at follow-up relative to control participants without clinically significant anxiety.Methods PubMed, EMBASE, PsycInfo, and CINAHL were searched through July 2015, along with manual searches of published reviews and forward and backward snowball searches of included studies. Studies were excluded if anxiety was not defined with a standardized instrument, or if participants were followed-up for 1 year or less. The initial search yielded 7901 articles after the removal of duplicates, of which 328 underwent full-text screening.Results Forty-two estimates from 36 articles were included in the meta-analysis with a total sample of 127,552 participants and over 11,573 deaths. The overall hazard ratio (HR) estimate of mortality in clinically anxious participants relative to controls was 1.09 (95 % CI 1.01-1.16); however, this was reduced after adjusting for publication bias (1.03; 95 % CI 0.95-1.13). There was no evidence of increased mortality risk among anxious participants derived from community samples (0.99; 95 % CI 0.96-1.02) and in studies that adjusted for a diagnosis of depression (1.01; 95 % CI 0.96-1.06).Conclusions These findings suggest that positive associations in the literature are attributable to studies in smaller samples, comorbid depression (or other psychiatric conditions) among participants, and possible confounding in medical patient samples followed-up for short durations.

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Authors
Miloyan, B., Bulley, A., Bandeen-Roche, K., Eaton, W. W., & Gonçalves-Bradley, D. C.
Affiliations
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • The University of Queensland (AU)
Corresponding author
Miloyan, Beyon
Venue
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Published
2016-09-14
Volume
51
Issue
11
Pages
1467-1475
ISSN
  • 0933-7954 (ISSN-L)
  • 1433-9285
OpenAlex
W2519012446
Cited by
111
References
101
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • FedUni ResearchOnline (Federation University Australia) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Aging (T32AG000247)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (026652)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
Keywords
anxiety disorders, all-cause mortality, anxiety symptoms, comorbid depression, publication bias, confounding, psychiatric comorbidity, mortality risk
MeSH terms
Adult, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Humans, Survival Rate

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