Title: Specificity in Familial Aggregation of Phobic Disorders
Abstract: <h3>Background:</h3> To investigate whether each of three DSM-III-R phobic disorders (simple phobia, social phobia, and agoraphobia with panic attacks) is familial and "breeds true." <h3>Design:</h3> Rates of each phobic disorder were contrasted in first-degree relatives of four proband groups: simple phobia, social phobia, agoraphobia with panic attacks, and not ill controls. Phobia probands were patients who had one of the phobia diagnoses but no other lifetime anxiety comorbidity. <h3>Results:</h3> We found moderate (two- to fourfold increased risk) but specific familial aggregation of each of the three<i>DSM-III-R</i>phobic disorders. <h3>Conclusions:</h3> These results support a specific familial contribution to each of the three phobia types. However, conclusions are limited to cases occurring without lifetime anxiety comorbidity and do not imply homogeneity within categories.
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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