If you worry too much about health, it will become easy to get sick.

ByAlex Proimos

As a result of analyzing data on health of more than 7000 people, those who are concerned about health doubles the risk of heart disease compared to those who are not concerned about health It turned out that it increased.

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This research analyzed the data of the research project "Norwegian Hordaland Health Study" conducted by Bergen University in Norway. Subjects were 7052 born between 1953 and 1957. In the project, questions such as health status, lifestyle, academic performance, etc. were conducted from 1997 to 1999, and bodies such as blood, height, weight, and blood pressure Data was recorded.

At this time, the subjects were assessed concerning health concerns by 14 items · 5 grades, total scores of 31 or more or the top 10% of high scores were regarded as "uneasy about health". The survey newly conducted this time tracked the data of treatment received by the subjects after the project at the hospital and the death report of the subjects until 2009.

In the monitoring period, those who had become ischemic heart diseases such as heart attacks and angina pectoris were 3.3% of the subjects, and the first modulation was occurring on average 7 years from the questionnaire. On the other hand, the proportion of people who are uneasy about health suffering from heart disease is 6%, which seems to have been about twice as likely as 3% of people without anxiety. Of course, those who have received any treatment or have a disease between 1997 and 1999 in this survey are excluded.

The finally found out by the investigation is that 73% of people who were uneasy about health during the 1997 research tended to suffer from heart disease. And the higher the score of health uncertainty, the higher the risk of heart disease.

As this survey is an observational study, it is possible for researchers to acknowledge that there is no definite cause-and-effect relationship between the two elements of anxiety and heart disease. People who are anxious about health are sometimes suffering from mental problems such as depression and it is difficult to distinguish them clearly.

ByNaomi August

However, the researchers said, "In this study, we strongly show that actions that people who are concerned about health with anxiety about their symptoms carefully do not lower the risk of cardiac disease," as "anxiety" It points out the potential dangers of it. Worried about sickness and placing the body in "severe attitude" may be conversely causing diseases. However, there is a dilemma here, and doctors and others give knowledge to the patient because there is a possibility of showing the opposite effect even if it informs the person having health uneasiness "health anxiety risks heart disease" Researchers say that patients need to be relieved, though.