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. 2025 Aug 21;11:252. doi: 10.1038/s41531-025-01104-x

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics according to anxiety disorder conditions

Name Levels Non-PD(n = 428,400) PD (n = 4154) P-value
Age (year) Mean ± SD 71.91 ± 8.06 78.66 ± 5.44 <0.001
Sex Female 238,579 (55.7%) 1562 (37.6%) <0.001
Male 189,821 (44.3%) 2592 (62.4%)
Ethnicity Non-white 22,171 (5.2%) 139 (3.3%) <0.001
White 406,229 (94.8%) 4015 (96.7%)
Education College 144,375 (33.7%) 1207 (29.1%) <0.001
Non-College 284,025 (66.3%) 2947 (70.9%)
Alcohol intake 0 79,790 (18.6%) 977 (23.5%) <0.001
1 48,396 (11.3%) 384 (9.2%)
2 111,936 (26.1%) 993 (23.9%)
3 101,396 (23.7%) 887 (21.4%)
4 86,882 (20.3%) 913 (22%)
Smoking status Never 241,042 (56.3%) 2262 (54.5%) <0.001
Previous 145,858 (34%) 1632 (39.3%)
Current 41,500 (9.7%) 260 (6.3%)
BMI <18.5 2049 (0.5%) 20 (0.5%) <0.001
18.5–24.9 138,418 (32.3%) 1123 (27%)
25–29.9 184,694 (43.1%) 1943 (46.8%)
>30 103,239 (24.1%) 1068 (25.7%)
TDI Mean ± SD −1.40 ± 3.03 −1.51 ± 3.00 0.017
PRS Mean ± SD −0.14 ± 1.02 0.25 ± 1.02 <0.001
Hypertension Yes 125,648 (29.3%) 2224 (53.5%) <0.001
Coffee intake 0 94,129 (22%) 844 (20.3%) 1.000
0–2 198,647 (46.4%) 1999 (48.1%)
2–4 88,716 (20.7%) 866 (20.8%)
>4 46,908 (10.9%) 445 (10.7%)
Migraine Yes 23,999 (5.6%) 173 (4.2%) <0.001
Depression Yes 50,583 (11.8%) 975 (23.5%) <0.001
Sleep disorder Yes 16,526 (3.9%) 361 (8.7%) <0.001
GAD Yes 33,461 (7.8%) 685 (16.5%) <0.001
PAD Yes 3726 (0.9%) 49 (1.2%) 0.040
OCD Yes 786 (0.2%) 24 (0.6%) <0.001
PTSD Yes 462 (0.1%) 10 (0.2%) 0.019

Alcohol intake: 0: Never drink or only drink on special occasions; 1: 1–3 times a month; 2: 1–2 times a week; 3: 3–4 times a week; 4: every day or almost every day.

Coffee intake: 0: No coffee; 0–2: 0–2 cups a day (including 2 cups but not including 0 cups); 2–4: 2–4 cups a day (including 4 cups but not including 2 cups); >4: more than 4 cups a day.

BMI body mass index, TDI townsend deprivation index, PRS polygenic risk score, GAD generalised anxiety disorder, PAD phobic anxiety disorders, OCD obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD posttraumatic stress disorder.