The association between health anxiety, physical disease and cardiovascular risk factors in the general population - a cross-sectional analysis from the Tromso study: Tromso 7.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health anxiety (HA) is defined as a worry of disease. An association between HA and mental illness has been reported, but few have looked at the association between HA and physical disease.

Objective

To examine the association between HA and number of diseases, different disease categories and cardiovascular risk factors in a large sample of the general population.

Methods

This study used cross-sectional data from 18,432 participants aged 40 years or older in the seventh survey of the Tromsø study. HA was measured using a revised version of the Whiteley Index-6 (WI-6-R). Participants reported previous and current status regarding a variety of different diseases. We performed exponential regression analyses looking at the independent variables 1) number of d

SUBMITTER: Norbye AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161473 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature