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. 2015 Feb 27;24(3):210–226. doi: 10.1017/S2045796015000189

Table 2.

Temporal priority in AOO distributions of lifetime DSM-IV/CIDI MDD and anxiety disordersa among respondents with lifetime and 12-month comorbid MDD and anxiety disorders in the WHO WMH Surveys

Among lifetime comorbid casesb Among 12-Month comorbid casesb
Anxiety first MDD first Anxiety first MDD first
% (s.e.) % (s.e.) (n) % (s.e.) % (s.e.) (n)
I. Low/Middle Income
Brazil – São Paulo 76.6* (2.6) 12.8 (2.0) (439) 75.6* (3.4) 15.7 (3.0) (205)
Bulgaria 62.8* (5.6) 11.0 (3.1) (145) 62.0* (7.6) 13.1 (4.2) (54)
Colombia 78.3* (3.0) 8.2 (1.8) (285) 84.4* (3.3) 9.3 (2.7) (110)
Columbia – Medellin 79.2* (3.4) 10.1 (2.5) (186) 87.4* (4.1) 6.9 (3.0) (73)
Iraq 44.4* (6.3) 12.2 (3.5) (167) 47.6* (8.2) 11.0 (5.1) (81)
Lebanon 68.1* (4.8) 17.2 (4.1) (128) 68.1* (4.8) 18.8 (6.4) (49)
Mexico 78.7* (3.6) 13.4 (3.1) (212) 77.8* (4.1) 15.8 (3.7) (101)
Nigeria 88.9* (4.7) 5.2 (3.3) (36) 86.1* (9.1) 7.8 (7.9) (12)
Peru 66.5* (5.3) 15.6 (4.0) (85) 69.3* (6.9) 17.3 (5.6) (37)
PRCc – Beijing/Shanghai 74.4* (9.5) 5.1 (3.6) (40) 70.0* (13.1) 5.1 (4.5) (21)
PRCc – Shenzhen 87.5* (5.20 4.0 (2.2) (70) 84.7* (7.1) 2.9 (2.2) (37)
Romania 89.9* (5.70 3.9 (2.5) (25) 97.2* (3.0) 2.8 (3.0) (11)
Total 71.5* (1.5) 11.3 (1.0) (1782) 72.9* (2.0) 12.4 (1.4) (791)
II. High Income
Australia 62.8* (2.6) 13.5 (1.8) (623) 62.0* (4.0) 16.2 (2.8) (229)
Belgium 64.4* (6.8) 14.2 (5.4) (106) 65.9* (10.1) 21.5 (10.0) (39)
France 70.2* (3.8) 15.6 (2.9) (261) 64.1* (7.3) 18.0 (5.4) (68)
Germany 69.6* (4.9) 17.1 (4.8) (164) 72.8* (8.0) 19.9 (8.0) (55)
Israel 30.0 (4.8) 33.3 (4.7) (104) 31.0 (6.1) 32.5 (5.9) (48)
Italy 57.9* (4.3) 12.8 (3.0) (172) 56.9* (7.4) 13.8 (5.8) (51)
Japan 55.8* (7.4) 5.4 (3.2) (64) 59.1* (10.4) 7.2 (5.3) (25)
Netherlands 58.1* (4.8) 18.7 (4.4) (186) 52.8 (8.5) 31.4 (8.5) (40)
New Zealand 70.2* (1.8) 10.2 (1.3) (1125) 71.1* (2.8) 12.8 (2.3) (370)
Northern Ireland 74.7* (3.1) 17.1 (2.7) (282) 77.2* (4.0) 13.8 (3.2) (110)
Poland 73.3* (5.7) 17.5 (4.9) (89) 71.1* (8.2) 21.9 (7.9) (36)
Portugal 69.5* (2.8) 17.3 (2.3) (338) 72.8* (4.1) 17.9 (3.7) (126)
Spain 56.8* (4.4) 11.2 (2.5) (217) 50.7* (6.1) 14.5 (4.2) (87)
Spain – Murcia 49.7* (5.5) 22.3 (4.8) (131) 44.7 (7.8) 31.5 (7.8) (45)
US 75.6* (1.6) 12.5 (1.3) (957) 77.5* (2.2) 13.2 (1.8) (375)
Total 66.9* (0.9) 14.2 (0.7) (4818) 66.7* (1.3) 16.5 (1.1) (1704)
III. Total 68.0* (0.8) 13.5 (0.6) (6600) 68.5 (1.1) 15.3 (0.9) (2495)

*Significant difference between the proportion of cases with anxiety temporally primary v. MDD temporally primary at the 0.05 level, two-sided test.

aAnxiety disorders include generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, agoraphobia without a history of panic disorder, specific phobia, social phobia, separation anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

bPercentages with MDD first and anxiety first sum to less than 100% because some respondents reported that their MDD and anxiety disorders started at the same age. In cases where respondents had multiple anxiety disorders, earliest AOO was used.

cPeople's Republic of China.