Study: Asthma patients more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety

People with asthma are more than twice as likely to have depression or anxiety than people without asthma, according to a study in Chest. Researchers reviewed data from 186,738 adult respondents to the U.S. National Health Interview Survey from 2001 to 2007. Of these adults, 7 percent had asthma and 3 percent had serious psychological distress. But among the subjects with asthma, the serious psychological distress rate was 7.5 percent. . read more.