Ashwini Nadkarni, MD
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This is a fantastic question because it really highlights the comorbidity. Patients who have a preexisting anxiety disorder are anywhere from seven to sixty times more likely to have a depressive disorder, and approximately sixty percent of patients who have a depressive disorder are going to have an anxiety disorder. So it's critical to screen for both when you're working with patients who come in with one or the other. So that's definitely a first key element of the approach.
