Erschienen in:
01.09.2007 | ORIGINAL PAPER
Cancer in people with depression or anxiety: record-linkage study
verfasst von:
Prof. Michael J. Goldacre, Clare J. Wotton, David Yeates, Valerie Seagroatt, Prof. Jonathan Flint
Erschienen in:
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
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Ausgabe 9/2007
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Abstract
Background
It has been suggested that the risk of cancer may be higher in people with psychological disorders, like depression and anxiety, than in the general population.
Aims
To determine cancer risk in cohorts of people with depression or anxiety, compared with that in a control cohort.
Method
Analysis of linked statistical records of hospital admission and mortality.
Results
Lung cancer was more common in those with depression (risk ratio 1.36, 95% confidence intervals 1.19–1.54) or anxiety (1.29, 1.12–1.48) than in others. Excluding lung cancer, the risk ratio for all other cancers combined was 0.98 (0.92–1.04) in the depression cohort and 1.01 (0.95–1.07) in the anxiety cohort. There was a significant association, in the short-term only, between depression, anxiety and the subsequent diagnosis of brain tumours.
Conclusions
With the exception of lung and brain tumours, cancer risk was not increased in people with depression or anxiety.