Science:Social Sciences
32: Can worrying about getting sick make you sicker?
2016-12-01
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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
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The paper
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/11/e012914.full
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