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Accuracy of self-perceived risk for common conditions. | LitMetric

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study aims to understand how well patients perceive their risk for chronic diseases like coronary heart disease (CHD), diabetes (DM), breast cancer (BC), and colorectal cancer (CRC).
  • Using personalized risk reports and surveys, researchers classified 4,703 subjects based on their awareness of their risk status.
  • The findings indicate that high-risk patients often under-estimate their risks, while low/average risk patients frequently over-estimate theirs, with body mass index (BMI) being a key factor in these misconceptions.

Article Abstract

Background: Accurate awareness of common disease risk is necessary to promote healthy lifestyles and to prevent unnecessary anxiety and evaluation. Our objective is to identify characteristics of patients who do not accurately perceive their risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD), diabetes (DM), breast cancer (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC).

Methods: Using personalized disease risk reports and risk perception surveys, subjects (n = 4703) were classified as high or low/average risk and high or low/average risk for each condition. Models were used to examine factors associated with risk under-estimation by high risk patients and risk over-estimation by low/average risk patients.

Results: Patients at high risk for DM, BC and CRC often (60%-75% of the time) under-estimated their risk, while low/average risk patients overestimated their risk 13%-40% of the time. For CHD, under-estimation by high risk individuals approximated over-estimation by low/average individuals. Compared to normal weight patients at high risk for cancer, obese patients were more likely to under-estimate their risk for BC (OR 3.1, CI 1.9-5.0) and CRC (2.6, 1.5-4.5) as were overweight patients. Overweight and obese patients at low/average risk of DM or CHD were more likely than normal weight patients to over-estimate their risk. Low/average risk women were more likely than men to over-estimate their risk of DM (1.3, 1.1-1.5) and CHD (1.8, 1.5-2.1).

Conclusions: Our data show that body mass index is the factor most consistently associated with incorrect risk perceptions for several common conditions.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6430213PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331205X.2018.1463894DOI Listing

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