Women's Mental Health: Depression and Anxiety

作者：Zender Robynn^*; Olshansky Ellen

来源：Nursing Clinics of North America, 2009, 44(3): 355-+.

DOI：10.1016/j.cnur.2009.06.002

• Women
• Mental health
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Co-morbid conditions

Sex ratios for selected mental disorders such as major depressive disorder and anxiety disorder are much higher in women than men. Anxiety disorders constitute the most prevalent mental disorder in adults, and affect twice as many women as men. Depression and anxiety exist comorbidly and along with other mental disorders. This article focuses on depression and anxiety in women, and other conditions comorbid with depression or anxiety: cardiac disease, obesity, vitamin D deficiency, and irritable bowel syndrome.

• 出版日期2009-9