Although women are more often than men worried, it seems to us, for an empty reason, or even for no reason at all, their own causeless concern is a greater threat - compared to those who are not worried about nothing, they often die of cancer.

We are talking about the so-called anxiety disorder, which is characterized by general persistent anxiety that is not associated with certain objects or situations.

Although sometimes such anxiety still takes the form of a bad feeling about a “specific reason” - for example, a possible accident or illness. Olivia Remes from the Institute of Health at the University of Cambridge and her colleagues analyzed how the health status of almost 16,000 people over forty has changed over the course of 15 years, and concluded that for men with anxiety disorder, the risk of getting cancer more than doubles (of course. ), reports "

As for women, among them oncological statistics, apparently, does not depend on personal anxiety, although anxiety disorder occurs more often.

It’s too early to speak about specific physiological connections: it is possible that in the male body under stress inflammatory processes manifest themselves more strongly, which, as you know, provoke malignant degeneration of cells.

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