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  • Title: High-dose carbon dioxide challenge test in anxiety disorder patients.
    Author: Gorman JM, Papp LA, Martinez J, Goetz RR, Hollander E, Liebowitz MR, Jordan F.
    Journal: Biol Psychiatry; 1990 Nov 01; 28(9):743-57. PubMed ID: 2124151.
    Abstract:
    Many investigators have shown that panic disorder patients and possibly social phobics are hypersensitive to the anxiogenic effects of inhaled carbon dioxide (CO2). In this study we administered double-breath inhalation of 35% CO2 and 65% oxygen (O2) to panic disorder patients, social phobics, and normal controls. At baseline, panic disorder patients were characterized by higher pulse, anxiety score, and evidence of hyperventilation. Panic patients and social phobics panicked more often to 35% CO2 than to room air; normal controls did not have a higher rate of panic to CO2 than to room air. However, we did not find significant group differences in anxiety level, physiological measures, or biochemical measures in response to CO2 breathing compared with room air breathing. These results confirm earlier reports of baseline hyperventilation in panic disorder patients. However, 35% CO2 may be too high a dose to differentiate respiratory responses of patients compared with normals.
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