ABSTRACT
Conversely, the same survey showed that 17.2% of depressed patients also had GAD. In fact, the odds ratio for major depression co-occurring with GAD was 6.0 (Table 13), higher than any of the other anxiety disorders.118 When Goldberg investigated the relationship of anxiety and depressive symptoms in a large sample of community care attenders, he found a considerable overlap between the two, the correlation coefficient being 0.68. As for specific diagnosis, depression occurred in 4.9% of the sample, GAD in 3.9% and comorbidity of the two disorders in 2.1%.119
