Worrying about your health is apt to make your health worse, finds a new study that reports highly anxious persons with heart disease face double the risk of heart attack or death than those with a more tranquil view of their medical condition.
While a diagnosis of heart disease naturally causes anxiety and stress, individuals who learn to cope and find internal calm markedly reduced their risk while individuals whose anxiety increased over time were in greatest peril. “I’m convinced that spending time with the patient and the family and interacting with them as a caring human being is critically important to clinical outcomes.” “The results of this study demonstrate that we may need to consider more thoroughly evaluating patients with mood disorders such as anxiety, as treatment may very well reduce the risk of heart disease.” “My hunch is that for the majority of patients, the greatest anxiety-reducing effect comes from having a good relationship with a doctor,” |
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