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Screening for Anxiety in Adolescent and Adult Women

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To identify the key insights or developments described in this article
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Anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social or school anxiety disorder, among other types.1 According to an analysis in 2019, anxiety disproportionately affects women, with an age-standardized prevalence of 4694.7 per 100 000 people, 1.64 times the prevalence among men.2 Brief anxiety screening may identify individuals who could benefit from further evaluation and management; however, there have been no evidence-based clinical guidelines for anxiety screening.

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Article Information

Corresponding Author: Tiffany I. Leung, MD, MPH, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Postbus 5800, Maastricht 6202 AZ, the Netherlands (t.leung@maastrichtuniversity.nl).

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Nelson  HD , Cantor  A , Pappas  M , Weeks  C .  Screening for anxiety in adolescent and adult women.   Ann Intern Med. 2020;173(1):29-41. doi:10.7326/M20-0579PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref
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