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. 2018 Mar 12;18:65. doi: 10.1186/s12888-018-1647-5

Table 5.

Tetrachoric correlations between different disorders at wave 1 (age 19–29) and wave 2 (age 30–42)

Wave 1 Wave 2
MDD Anxiety
W1–2a
AUD MDD Anxiety
W1–2a
AUD
Wave 1 MDD 0.45*** 0.00 0.31** 0.38*** 0.16
Anxiety W1–2a 0.10 0.26** 0.65*** 0.02
AUD 0.07 0.07 0.49***
Wave 2 MDD 0.54*** 0.12
Anxiety W1–2a 0.03
AUD

Legends: aPanic disorder, agoraphobia without panic, specific phobias, social phobia and/or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

MDD Major depressive disorder. AUD Alcohol use disorders, i.e. alcohol dependence or alcohol abuse. Standard errors were obtained from the jackknife estimator, accounting for cluster-effects among twins. **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. Men and women were collapsed to increase statistical power