Figure 1

Symptoms of anxiety and depression in the current sample of patients with neurofibromatosis as compared with other medical populations. Scores shown are mean scores (with 95% confidence interval) on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults for patients with neurofibromatosis as compared with published population norms and published scores of patients with multiple sclerosis,^21,22 diabetes,^23,24 coronary artery disease,^25,26 head and neck cancer,^27,28 prostate cancer,^28,29 ovarian cancer,^30,31 and breast cancer.³²