Modern epidemiology of anxiety: results of the Zurich cohort study

Longitudinal Trajectories of Depression and Anxiety in a Prospective Community Study

“…Previous work on this community sample has demonstrated that contemporary diagnostic systems fail to cover depressive and anxiety states among those who do not meet duration or impairment criteria yet exhibit recurrence and subjective distress and have a history of treatment. 28,31,32,[64][65][66] This conclusion is substantiated by accumulating evidence of the importance of subthreshold syndromes manifested in clinical, primary care, and community samples 17,28,33,34,50 as well as by the emergence of similar patterns of longitudinal stability and comorbidity in the current study. Wittchen et al 13 found similar results in a short-term follow-up (19.7 months) of those with threshold-level anxiety and depression at baseline.…”

Generalized anxiety disorder and clinical worry episodes in young women

“…Further analyses showed that individuals of the latter group did not reach the full GAD criteria due to a number of reasons, and not just because of the stringent time criterion in DSM-IV as was expected by Angst (1999). Most important for failing to identify these subjects as clinically disordered is the fact that they do not see themselves as being at least moderately impaired (38 %).…”

Varying temporal criteria for generalized anxiety disorder: prevalence and clinical characteristics in a young age cohort

“…Thus, our study confirms the results of Bienvenu et al (1998) and Kessler et al (2005) as well as our earlier analysis (Angst, 1999).…”