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.

Some of the topics covered:

• Web MD and health anxiety
• How would healthy anxiety contribute to heart disease?
• A summary of the study
• Ischemic heart disease = coronary artery disease
• Do people with healthy anxiety take better care of thier health?
• Don't be fooled by percentage increase of risk for something that's rare
• There are some things you can't just randomize
• The pros and cons of big data collection

Links

The paper

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/11/e012914.full

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