Anxiety: hospital admissions highest in women in their late 60s
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Hospital admissions for anxiety increased with age and were highest among older women, new figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show.
In the 12 months to November 2013 almost three out of ten anxiety admissions were women aged 60 and over (2,440 out of 8,720, or 28 per cent), with 65 to 69 the most common age group of female patient admissions (437, or eight per cent of all female admissions). The most common age group for male patient admissions was 45 to 49 (...
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