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    This article examines a sample of college students (2,375) and found that 12% had at least one unexpected panic attack and out of that 12%, 2.36% qualified  as having a panic disorder. The study also showed that gender is not significant in the overall rate of panic attacks, even though men worry more than women while women panic more than men.
    I believe this article will be useful because it is attempting to find the basis of panic attacks, which was the direction I was thinking of taking this proposal. It provides support for the role of a person's personality, anxious apprehension, as a factor in panic attacks 


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