Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 6 , Pages 504-510 , November 2007

Panic disorder, trait anxiety, and alcohol use in pregnant and nonpregnant women

This research was presented in part at the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Baltimore, MD, (June 2006) and at the Virginia Commonwealth University's second annual Women's Health Research Day, Richmond, VA, (March 2006).

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.06.004

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 6 , Pages 504-510 , November 2007

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