焦虑症和癌症之间的双向关系:基于人口的纵向队列研究
Sang-Hue Yen1, Yi-Hsuan Hsu2, Doreen Phiri2
1Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
BMC cancer
|April 24, 2025
概括
这项研究揭示了癌症和焦虑之间的双向关系. 患有焦虑症的人面临患癌症的风险更高,癌症患者更容易患焦虑症.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 关于焦虑与癌症之间的联系存在不一致的发现.
- 这项研究解决了关于焦虑症和癌症发病率之间的双向关系需要明确的需求.
研究的目的:
- 调查焦虑障碍与随后的癌症风险之间的联系.
- 为了检查癌症患者中发展焦虑障碍的风险.
- 为了确定与焦虑风险增加相关的特定癌症类型.
主要方法:
- 在台湾 (2003-2016) 进行了一项回顾性纵向队列研究.
- 数据包括23255名焦虑症患者和33334名癌症患者.
- 使用了Cox比例危险回归模型和病例对照抽样.
主要成果:
- 焦虑患者患癌症的风险增加了1.29倍.
- 甲状腺 (AHR:2.13),皮肤 (AHR:2.10) 和前列腺 (AHR:1.97) 癌症的癌症风险增加.
- 癌症患者患焦虑症的风险增加了1.63倍,尤其是鼻癌 (AHR: 3.12),白血病 (AHR: 2.54),甲状腺癌 (AHR: 2.34) 和口腔癌 (AHR: 2.04).
结论:
- 癌症和焦虑症之间存在着显著的双向关系.
- 了解这种联系对于综合患者护理至关重要.
- 调查结果可以为这两种情况的管理策略提供信息.
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