HealthDay (7/13, Mann) reports investigators examining “how anxiety was passed down among parents to same-sex kids among 398 kids from 221 mothers and 237 fathers” found that “anxious moms are more likely to have anxious daughters, and anxious dads are more likely to have anxious sons.”
MedPage Today (7/13, Kneisel) reports the study revealed that “the odds of a lifetime anxiety disorder diagnosis in offspring increased proportionately to the number of parents with anxiety disorders – specifically, anxiety occurred in about 24% of those whose parents were not affected, in 28% of children with one affected parent, and in 41% of those with both parents affected.” The findings were published online July 12 in JAMA Network Open.
Related Links:
— “Can Anxiety Disorders Pass From Parent to Child? “Denise Mann, HealthDay, July 13, 2022