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Hypochondriasis and its relationship to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The Psychiatric clinics of North America - 1 Sept 2000
Fallon B A, Qureshi A I, Laje G, Klein B
Abstract excerpt
Hypochondriasis is a heterogeneous disorder. This was well demonstrated in the study by Kellner et al, which showed that patients with high levels of disease fear tended to be more anxious or phobic, whereas patients with high levels of disease conviction tended to have more and more severe somatic symptoms. Little comorbidity exists to support the statement that hypochondriasis is an obsessive-compulsive...
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