Giuseppe Guaiana, Nicholas Meader, Corrado Barbui, Simon Jc Davies, Toshi A Furukawa, Hissei Imai, Sofia Dias, Deborah M Caldwell, Markus Koesters, Aran Tajika, Irene Bighelli, Alessandro Pompoli, Andrea Cipriani, Sarah Dawson, Lindsay Robertson
BACKGROUND: A panic attack is a discrete period of fear or anxiety that has a rapid onset and reaches a peak within 10 minutes. The main symptoms involve bodily systems, such as racing heart, chest pain, sweating, shaking, dizziness, flushing, churning stomach, faintness and breathlessness. Other recognised panic attack symptoms involve fearful cognitions, such as the fear of collapse, going mad or dying, and derealisation (the sensation that the world is unreal). Panic disorder is common in the general population with a prevalence of 1% to 4%...
November 28, 2023: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews