Articles / Bad News for Sinus Sufferers
Chronic rhinosinusitis is a misery-generating condition – literally.
According to a large study just published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, having chronic rhinosinusitis significantly increases your risk of depression and anxiety. And if you also have nasal polyps the risk is higher still.
The Korean study was admittedly observational but it did include almost 50,000 individuals from the general population and followed them up for 11 years.
Researchers found, over the duration of the study, those people with chronic rhinosinusitis were 54% more likely to develop depression and 57% more likely to develop anxiety than those people who did not suffer this condition. And if nasal polyps accompanied the rhinosinusitis the increase in likelihood for both mental illnesses jumped to the early 60s (61% and 63% respectively).
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