Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Mortality and Disease: A Stronger Predictor than Major Depressive Disorder

Abstract

This chapter will examine the associations between Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and key health outcomes, including mortality, the metabolic syndrome, and hypertension, citing relevant research and recent findings from the Vietnam Experience Study. It aims to show that GAD is as strong a determinant of such health outcomes, if not a stronger one than MDD. It also aims to illustrate the importance of considering the comorbidity of GAD with other psychiatric diagnoses when predicting mortality and other health outcomes.