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Chapter 20 - Anxiety and depression in women in old age

from Section 4 - Depression, anxiety and related disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

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Robert C. Baldwin  and
Jane Garner
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Comprehensive Women's Mental Health , pp. 247 - 268
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