KMID : 0605620070140030194
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Journal of Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry 2007 Volume.14 No. 3 p.194 ~ p.200
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A Comparison of the Clinical Features between Panic Disorder with and without Agoraphobia
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Lee Ho-Sang
Han Sang-Woo Lim Se-Won Oh Kang-Seob
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study was performed to investigate the differences of the clinical feature between panic disorder with agoraphobic patients and panic disorder without agoraphobic patients.
Methods: Two hundred nine patients meeting the criteria of DSM-IV panic disorder were recruited. One group was panic disorder with agoraphobia(n=78, 42 male(53.8%), mean age 37.6+/-9.9 years), another was panic disorder without agoraphobia(n=131, 81 male(61.8%), mean age 40.5+/-10.3 years). The numbers and frequency of panic symptoms were compared between two groups with t-test, and the logistic regression analysis were used for predicting panic disorder with agoraphobia.
Results: The number of panic symptoms during panic attack was significantly higher in the group of panic disorder with agoraphobia than the group of panic disorder without agoraphobia(p<0.05). ¡¯Sweating¡¯, ¡¯nausea or abdominal distress¡¯, ¡¯fear of losing control of going crazy¡¯, ¡¯chills or hot flushes¡¯ were more frequent in the group of panic disorder with agoraphobia(p<0.05). Among panic symptoms on logistic regression analysis, ¡¯sweating¡¯, ¡¯nausea or abdominal distress¡¯, ¡¯fear of losing control or going crazy¡¯ turned out to correlate significantly with risk of development of agoraphobia in panic disorder.
Conclusion: These results suggest that the frequency of some symptoms during panic attack may be a predictor of agoraphobia in patients with panic disorder.
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KEYWORD
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Panic disorder, Agoraphobia
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