Absolute number of subjects with overlapping anxiety symptoms, depression and physical morbidity.

<p>As showed in the figure, anxiety symptoms co-occur with depression and physical morbidity in 25 older adults, 43,1% of the group with anxiety. Physical diseases are associated with anxiety symptoms in 29 subjects and with depression in 28 subjects. Anxiety symptoms were defined by the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory short form, using a cut-off score of three or more; depression was diagnosed according to ICD 10 Criteria; physical morbidity was defined as having at least one physical disease among anemia, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), cerebrovascular diseases, Parkinson’s Disease. Subjects with missing data for anxiety symptoms or depression or physical morbidity were excluded, leaving a total of 278 subjects.