Takayasu Arteritis with Neurological Manifestations: Clinical and Neurovascular Imaging Characteristics

20 Limited studies have investigated the mental health in TA patients as compared to healthy controls; 21 , 22 their pooled results revealed significantly higher depression scores among TA than healthy controls while anxiety levels did not reach statistical significance. 23 The association between disease activity and higher anxiety and depression scores is controversial 21 , 24 implying that the development of neuropsychiatric symptoms could not be entirely explained by disease activity.

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