New United States research has found that depression and anxiety could be as bad for health as smoking and obesity, increasing the risk of conditions such as heart disease and arthritis. Carried out by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, the new large-scale study looked at health data taken from a government study of 15,418 retirees with an average age of 68. The participants' depression and anxiety symptoms were assessed using interviews, and data was also recorded on participants' current smoking status, weight, medical diagnoses and somatic symptoms on two occasions over four years. The findings, published in the journal Health Psychology, showed t...
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