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Is there an association between disease ignorance and self-rated health? The HUNT Study, a cross-sectional survey.
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- Too Much, Too Mild, Too Early: Diagnosing the Excessive Expansion of Diagnoses.International journal of general medicine · 2022Article
- Health-Related Quality of Life in Levothyroxine-Treated Hypothyroid Women and Women without Hypothyroidism: A Case-Control Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- The diagnosis of asymptomatic disease is associated with fewer healthy days: A cross sectional analysis from the national health and nutrition examination survey.British journal of health psychology · 2019Article
- Mortality in persons with undetected and diagnosed hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and hypothyroidism, compared with persons without corresponding disease - a prospective cohort study; The HUNT Study, Norway.BMC family practice · 2017Article
- Persistent hypothyroid symptoms in a patient with a normal thyroid stimulating hormone level.Current opinion in endocrinology, diabetes, and obesity · 2017Review
- Latent Hypothyroidism in Adults.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2017Review
- Diagnostic labelling influences self-rated health. A prospective cohort study: the HUNT Study, Norway.Family practice · 2015Article
- Poor Self-Rated Health Influences Hospital Service Use in Hospitalized Inpatients With Chronic Conditions in Taiwan.Medicine · 2015Observational
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore whether awareness versus unawareness of thyroid dysfunction, diabetes mellitus or hypertension is associated with self-rated health.
designLarge-scale, cross-sectional population-based study. The association between thyroid function, diabetes mellitus and blood pressure and self-rated health was explored by multiple logistic regression analysis.
settingThe second survey of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study, HUNT2, 1995-1997.
participants33 734 persons aged 40-70 years. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Logistic regression was used to estimate ORs for good self-rated health as a function of thyroid status, diabetes mellitus status and blood pressure status.
resultsPersons aware of their hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus or hypertension reported poorer self-rated health than individuals without such conditions. Women with unknown and subclinical hypothyroidism reported better self-rated health than women with normal thyroid status. In women and men, unknown and probable diabetes as well as unknown mild/moderate hypertension was not associated with poorer health. Furthermore, persons with unknown severe hypertension reported better health than normotensive persons.
conclusionsPeople with undiagnosed but prevalent hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus and hypertension often have good self-rated health, while when aware of their diagnoses, they report reduced self-rated health. Use of screening, more sensitive tests and widened diagnostic criteria might have a negative effect on perceived health in the population.
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