Hypochondria statistic shows some facts in around the world. From Bipolar Central data shows that hypochondria affects 1% to 4% of patients who experienced some checks related to health problems. not just people with health problems, healthy people with statistics of 10-20% also fell unreasonable anxiety to their symptoms they suffered. This number increase until 45% on people without major psychiatric disorders.

There is no age limitation for them, hypochondria can start in any age but commonly can be diagnosed on early of adulthood or 20 and 30 years old. Men and women have same probability to suffer from this disorder but based on telegraph.co.uk, one report from Office of National Statistics (ONS) show if women are more likely to report illness than men, but are less likely to die from bad health.

Telegraph.co.uk also report if other groups who were more susceptible to illness included people living in council or association homes, people who had no educational qualifications, people who were unemployed and people who did not own a car, the Daily Mail reported. The report claimed that Scotland had the lowest proportion of hypochondriacs – not because they were less likely to report ill health, but because they were statistically more likely to die within five years of doing so due to high rates of mortality in a number of Scottish towns and cities.

The prevalence of Hypochondriac patients ranges from 0.8-4.5% in the primary care setting, and ranges from 4% to 20% of the general population. People with hypochondria also suffer other disorder on range until 88%, this disorder include anxiety (71%), dysthymic disorder (45.2%), and major depression (42.9%). Besides that, patient can have concurrent disorders in form of somatization (21.4%) and panic disorder (16.7%).

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Treatment:
1/3 of Hypochondriac patient experience significant improvement in their condition with this somatoform disorder treatment. Prognosis, 10% of patients can be cured, 65% progress to chronic fluctuating with onset, 25% worse prognosis. In the U.S., it is estimated that between 0.8% and 8.5% of the adult population suffers from hypochondria and this disorder causes over $20 billion a year in unnecessary medical procedures and examinations.

Some hypochondria statistic is still on research.