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Anxious and nonanxious depression

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.150.8.1257

The authors used the anxiety summary score described by Clayton and associates to assess anxious and nonanxious subtypes of depression in a group of 134 outpatients with major depression. Patients with anxious depression were only slightly less likely to respond to their first tricyclic antidepressant than patients with nonanxious depression. When functional severity or symptom severity was controlled for, this differential treatment response did not hold.

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