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Generalised anxiety disorder

D J Stein
South African Journal of Psychiatry | Vol 19, No 3 | a950 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v19i3.950 | © 2013 D J Stein | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 11 January 2016 | Published: 30 August 2013

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Abstract

Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common disorder witha lifetime prevalence of 6.1% and a 1-year prevalence of 2.9% inone large study.[1]It occurs most commonly in the 45 - 55-yearage group with women twice as likely as men to have GAD.[1]

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