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Anxiety and Depression Are More Prevalent in Patients with Graves' Disease than in Patients with Nodular Goitre
Author(s) -
Kira Bang Bové,
Torquil Watt,
Asmus Vogel,
László Hegedűs,
Jakob Bue Bjoerner,
Mogens Grøenvold,
Steen Joop Bonnema,
Åse Krogh Rasmussen,
Ulla FeldtRasmussen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
european thyroid journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.23
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2235-0802
pISSN - 2235-0640
DOI - 10.1159/000365211
Subject(s) - medicine , anxiety , depression (economics) , graves' disease , hospital anxiety and depression scale , disease , comorbidity , thyroid disease , thyroid , psychiatry , economics , macroeconomics
Graves' disease has been associated with an increased psychiatric morbidity. It is unclarified whether this relates to Graves' disease or chronic disease per se. The aim of our study was to estimate the prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms in patients with Graves' disease compared to patients with another chronic thyroid disease, nodular goitre, and to investigate determinants of anxiety and depression in Graves' disease.

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