Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

oA novel nonparametric approach for estimating cut-offs in continuous risk indicators with application to diabetes epidemiology (2009)

Klotsche, Jens, Ferger, Dietmar, Pieper, Lars, Rehm, Jürgen, Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich

Abstract Background Epidemiological and clinical studies, often including anthropometric measures, have established obesity as a major risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes. Appropriate...

Anxiety disorders in mothers and their children: results from a prospective-longitudinal community study (2008)

Schreier, Andrea, Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, Höfler, Michael, Lieb, Roselind

The relationship between DSM–IV anxiety disorders and their clinical characteristics in mothers and anxiety in offspring was examined in 933 mother–child pairs from a longitudinal community...

International Day for the Evaluation of Abdominal Obesity (IDEA): a study of waist circumference, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes mellitus in 168,000 primary care patients in 63 countries. (2007)

Balkau, Beverley, Deanfield, John, Després, Jean-Pierre, Bassan, Jean-Pierre, Fox, Keith, Smith, Sidney, ...

BACKGROUND: Abdominal adiposity is a growing clinical and public health problem. It is not known whether it is similarly associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes mellitus in...

International Day for the Evaluation of Abdominal Obesity (IDEA): a study of waist circumference, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes mellitus in 168,000 primary care patients in 63 countries. (2007)

Balkau, Beverley, Deanfield, John, Després, Jean-Pierre, Bassan, Jean-Pierre, Fox, Keith, Smith, Sidney, ...

BACKGROUND: Abdominal adiposity is a growing clinical and public health problem. It is not known whether it is similarly associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes mellitus in...

International Day for the Evaluation of Abdominal Obesity (IDEA): a study of waist circumference, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes mellitus in 168,000 primary care patients in 63 countries. (2007)

Balkau, Beverley, Deanfield, John, Després, Jean-Pierre, Bassan, Jean-Pierre, Fox, Keith, Smith, Sidney, ...

BACKGROUND: Abdominal adiposity is a growing clinical and public health problem. It is not known whether it is similarly associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes mellitus in...

International Day for the Evaluation of Abdominal obesity: rationale and design of a primary care study on the prevalence of abdominal obesity and associated factors in 63 countries (2006)

Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, Balkau, Beverley, Massien, Christine, Richard, Alain, Haffner, Steven, Després, Jean-Pierre, ...

Sedentary lifestyles and energy-rich diets are driving an increasing prevalence of abdominal obesity, which is associated with cardiovascular risk. Reliable estimates of the worldwide prevalence of...

Social Phobia in an Italian region: do Italian studies show lower frequencies than community surveys conducted in other European countries? (2004)

Carta, Mauro, Hardoy, Maria, Cadeddu, Mariangela, Carpiniello, Bernardo, Dell'Osso, Liliana, Reda, Mario, ...

Abstract Background The lifetime prevalence of Social Phobia (SP) in European countries other than Italy has been estimated to range from 3.5% to 16.0%. The aim of this study was to assess the...

Themenheft 21 "Angststörungen" (2004)

Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, Jacobi, Frank

Angst ist dem Menschen als natürliche Anpassungsleistung für das Überleben im Sinne der Gefahrenvermeidung mitgegeben. Bei Personen mit Angsterkrankungen bzw. Angststörungen sind die...

The epidemiology of major depressive episodes: results from the International Consortium of Psychiatric Epidemiology (ICPE) surveys (2003)

Andrade, Laura, Caraveo-anduaga, Jorge J., Berglund, Patricia A., Bijl, Rob V., Graaf, Ron De, Vollebergh, Wilma, ...

Absence of a common diagnostic interview has hampered cross-national syntheses of epidemiological evidence on major depressive episodes (MDE). Community epidemiological surveys using the World Health...

Methodological studies of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) in the US national comorbidity survey (NCS) (1998)

Kessler, Ronald C., Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, Abelson, Jamie M., Mcgonagle, Katherine, Schwarz, Norbert, Kendler, Kenneth S., ...

This paper reports the results of methodological studies carried out in conjunction with the US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) to evaluate Version 1.0 of the World Health Organization (WHO)...

Prospective cohort study of cannabis use, predisposition for psychosis, and psychotic symptoms in young people

Henquet, Cécile, Krabbendam, Lydia, Spauwen, Janneke, Kaplan, Charles, Lieb, Roselind, Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, ...

Objective To investigate the relation between cannabis use and psychotic symptoms in individuals with above average predisposition for psychosis who first used cannabis during adolescence.

Prospective cohort study of cannabis use, predisposition for psychosis, and psychotic symptoms in young people

Henquet, Cécile, Krabbendam, Lydia, Spauwen, Janneke, Kaplan, Charles, Lieb, Roselind, Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, ...

Objective To investigate the relation between cannabis use and psychotic symptoms in individuals with above average predisposition for psychosis who first used cannabis during adolescence.

Associations of familial risk factors with social fears and social phobia: evidence for the continuum hypothesis in social anxiety disorder?

Knappe, Susanne, Beesdo, Katja, Fehm, Lydia, Lieb, Roselind, Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich

We examined parental psychopathology and family environment in subthreshold and DSM-IV threshold conditions of social anxiety disorder (SAD) in a representative cohort sample of 1,395 adolescents....