Baseline anxiety, and early anxiety/depression improvement in anxious depression predicts treatment outcomes with escitalopram: A CAN-BIND-1 study report

INTRODUCTION: Although anxiety symptoms frequently co-occur with major depressive disorder, few studies examined the prediction of treatment outcomes among participants with anxious depression receiving antidepressants. We investigated whether baseline anxiety, and early improvements in anxiety and depression symptoms predict eventual treatment outcomes. METHODS: 111 participants with anxious depression, defined using ≥ 10 on GAD-7, received …