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Anxiety Disorder
- Epidemiology
- Anxiety disorder Incidence (U.S.): 16%
- Family physicians treat 90% of anxiety patients
- Refer <10% of patients to psychiatry
- Elderly have lower Incidence of anxiety
- Elderly women more affected than men
- Often associated with depression
- Pathophysiology
- Hyperarousal state
- Begins in brainstem reticular formation
- Locus Ceruleus (Secretes Norepinephrine)
- Dorsal and medial raphe nuclei (Secretes Serotonin)
- Differential Diagnosis
- See Anxiety Secondary Causes
- Mania or Bipolar Disorder
- Personality Disorder (Anxious cluster)
- Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder
- Avoidant Personality disorder
- Dependent Personality disorder
- Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
- Anxiety Adjustment Disorder
- Appropriate response to a life stressor
- Schizophrenia
- Somatoform Disorder
- Types: Primary Anxiety Disorder
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Social Phobia
- Symptoms
- See Anxiety Symptoms
- Excessive Worry
- May affect relationships
- Lab: Evaluation for Anxiety Secondary Causes
- Standard Studies
- Serum Chemistry profile (Chem10)
- Serum Glucose
- Serum Calcium
- Serum phosphate
- Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH)
- Urine drug screen
- Studies if specifically indicated
- Serum Cortisol
- Urine Catecholamines
- Diagnostics: Evaluation for Anxiety Secondary Causes
- Standard Studies
- Electrocardiogram
- Studies if specifically indicated
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Vestibular testing
- Echocardiography
- Evaluation
- See Anxiety Scales
- Management
- See Anxiety Medications
- Anxiety Non-pharmacologic Management
- References
- Walley (1994) Am Fam Physician 50(8):1745
Anxiety Disorders (C0003469)
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| Definition (MSH) | Persistent and disabling ANXIETY. |
| Definition (CSP) | general term for the group of specific, anxiety-related, avoidance- prone disorders listed as NTs. |
| Concepts | Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction (T048)
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| English | ANXIETY DIS, Anxiety disorder, Anxiety Disorders |
| Spanish | trastorno de ansiedad |
| Credits | Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)
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