Time course of panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder onsets

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Erin C BerenzRoxann Roberson-Nay

Abstract

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often co-occurs with panic disorder (PD), with some etiological models positing a causal role of panic reactivity in PTSD onset; however, data addressing the temporal ordering of these conditions are lacking. The aim of this study was to examine the bi-directional associations between PD and PTSD in a nationally representative, epidemiologic sample of trauma-exposed adults. Participants were community-dwelling adults (62.6% women; Mage = 48.9, SD 16.3) with lifetime DSM-IV PTSD criterion A trauma exposure drawn from the 2001/2 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) and re-interviewed in 2004/5 (N = 12,467). Cox discrete-time proportional hazards models with time-varying covariates were used to investigate the bi-directional associations between lifetime PD and PTSD, accounting for demographic characteristics, trauma load, and lifetime history of major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and social anxiety disorder. PD was significantly associated with subsequent onset of PTSD (HR 1.210, 95%CI = 1.207-1.214, p < .001), and PTSD was significantly associated with onset of PD (HR 1.601, 95% CI 1.597-1.604, p < .001). The association between PTSD and subseq...Continue Reading

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