32: Can worrying about getting sick make you sicker?
Dan and James discuss a new population study that linked health anxiety data with future heart disease.
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- Web MD and health anxiety \n
- How would healthy anxiety contribute to heart disease? \n
- A summary of the study \n
- Ischemic heart disease = coronary artery disease \n
- Do people with healthy anxiety take better care of thier health? \n
- Don't be fooled by percentage increase of risk for something that's rare \n
- There are some things you can't just randomize \n
- The pros and cons of big data collection \n
Links
\n\nThe paper
\n\nhttp://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/11/e012914.full
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