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Anxiety causes tendency to asthma |
| Posted on Nov 15 2009 at 5:07 PM |
The team used a questionnaire to evaluate tendencies to hysteria, anxiety and depression in 4010 adults without asthma. When they reassessed participants nine years later, they found that those who had high levels of neurosis were three times as likely to have developed asthma as those with low scores. Animal studies have previously shown that chronic stress alters hormone levels, which can lead to airway inflammation. (Neuroticism, extraversion, stressful life events and asthma: a cohort study of middle-aged adults. Allergy. 2009 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print]).
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