Research on anxiety in oldest-old individuals is scarce. Specifically, incidence studies based on large community samples are lacking. The objective of this study is to assess age- and gender-specific incidence rates in a large sample of oldest-old individuals and to identify potential risk factors. The study included data from N = 702 adults aged 81 to 97 years. Anxiety symptoms were identified using the short form of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI-SF). Associations of potential risk factors with anxiety incidence were analyzed using Cox proportional hazard models. Out of the N = 702 older adults, N = 77 individuals developed anxiety symptoms during the follow-up period. The incidence rate was 51.3 (95% CI: 41.2–64.1) per 1000 person-years in the overall sample, compared to 58.5 (95% CI: 43.2–72.4) in women and 37.3 (95% CI: 23.6–58.3) in men. Multivariable analysis showed an association of subjective memory complaints (HR: 2.03, 95% CI: 1.16–3.57) and depressive symptoms (HR: 3.20, 95% CI: 1.46–7.01) with incident anxiety in the follow-up. Incident anxiety is highly common in late life. Depressive symptoms and subjective memory complaints are major risk factors of new episodes. Incident anxiety appears to be a response to subjective memory complaints independent of depressive symptoms.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:85174 |
| Date | 04 May 2023 |
| Creators | Welzel, Franziska Dinah, Luppa, Melanie, Pabst, Alexander, Pentzek, Michael, Fuchs, Angela, Weeg, Dagmar, Bickel, Horst, Weyerer, Siegfried, Werle, Jochen, Wiese, Birgitt, Oey, Anke, Brettschneider, Christian, König, Hans-Helmut, Heser, Kathrin, van den Bussche, Hendrik, Eisele, Marion, Maier, Wolfgang, Scherer, Martin, Wagner, Michael, Riedel-Heller, Steffi G. |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 1660-4601, 12786 |
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