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Scared to death: results from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition study
Gretchen A Brenes1, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Kala M Mehta
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA. gbrenes@wfubmc.edu
Objective:
The purpose of this study is to determine if anxiety is associated with mortality and if race moderates and depression mediates this relationship.
Method:
Participants are 3,015 adults aged 70-79 years.
Results:
Anxiety symptoms were significant predictors of all-cause, cardiovascular, and noncardiovascular mortality among blacks but not whites. Depression was not related to mortality.
Conclusions:
Although the mechanisms that underlie the relationship between anxiety and mortality are unknown, routine assessment of anxiety symptoms in clinical practice, particularly in black older adults, seems prudent.
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