Why are much more likely than men fear women suffer

A new document shows that most women and young adults are the most affected. The paper, published online this week in the journal Brain an...

A new document shows that most women and young adults are the most affected.

The paper, published online this week in the journal Brain and Behavior, suggests that women suffer almost twice as likely as men to fear. This difference between the sexes is the result of differences in brain chemistry and could be hormonal fluctuations, or how men and women deal with stress tend otherwise, said Olivia Remes, lead author and a doctoral student in the University of Cambridge in England.

In addition, 35 people live in North America and Western Europe, are most likely to be affected by fear, the newspaper said.

"Our study shows that the groups around the world are more likely to develop anxiety disorders, so that the efforts of health services resources, detection and treatment can be directed to these high-risk groups," Remes said.

"Afraid he is not much importance given to research in the field of mental health in general," he added. "There was a lot of attention to depression, which is a big problem of mental health, but fear is just as important. It is debilitating. It can lead to suicide and is associated with high costs for the associated company."

Remes and his co-authors in the UK analyzed 48 previous scientific articles about anxiety disorders worldwide. They took a close look at the prevalence or percentage of people with this disease suffer by about 1990-2015.

The researchers observed trends in the prevalence of anxiety in different gender, age, culture and regional groups. For example, while the highest proportion of people with anxiety in North America, was the lowest in East Asia.

Overall, the researchers estimated out that four out of 100 people experience anxiety in the world.

Therefore, it is always important to consider how the inequalities between different groups - men and women or people of different ages, for example - could contribute to the beginning of the anxiety disorders, said Julian Somers, associate professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

Somers has not show in the new research but co-author of the first international document gender differences in anxiety involved. He said, confirm the new results indicate that anxiety can be linked to certain stressors such as pregnancy, drug abuse or other health-related conditions.

Compared to the general population, it was found that the prevalence of forced pregnant women to be twice and slightly higher in women after birth disorder. The new research also found a link between opioid dependence and an increased risk of anxiety.

"An important result is the overlap between anxiety and substance abuse. This means that clinicians should consider to fear focusing and [the] results in the possibility that people who increase the substances that can use and help you manage your anxiety symptoms," said Somers.

Meanwhile, in 10 adult one probably associated with cardiovascular disease in Western countries generalized anxiety disorder to learn, and one-third of patients with multiple sclerosis have an anxiety disorder.

However Remes, many people in the world suffer from anxiety, he said - and that was surprising.

"Our study helps to clarify and light on the following important question scales: anxiety is common in people with severe chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease not only common but often develops in young and healthy people," Remes said. "Can once developed, can lead to a series of negative results. Fear in each develop, regardless of age, gender, ethnic origin or race and affects people the world."