This is the first community-based epidemiologic study demonstrating that DSM-IV-diagnosed antecedent depression and anxiety disorders influence the risk of vulvodynia and that vulvodynia increases the risk of both new and recurrent onset of psychopathology.
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Khandker et al. (2011) studied this question.
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