Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders

Table 6 Common risk factors in patients with anxiety and related disorders

• Family history of anxiety [33] • Personal history of anxiety or mood disorder [34, 35] • Childhood stressful life events or trauma [36, 37] • Being female [4, 9] • Chronic medical illness [34, 40] • Behavioral inhibition [41, 42]