anxiety disorder is positioned as the pathology most consulted by Spaniards on the platform of Doctoraliawhich connects patients with health professionals.
According to the list published by this platform, on the most sought-after diseases in Spain during the year 2022, mental illnesses occupy four of the top ten positions in the ranking.
In addition, from Doctoralia they emphasize that mental illnesses are superseded, for the first time in a long time, from those related to intimate health. These data reflect the growing interest of Spaniards in mental health since, in the same ranking in 2014, no mental pathology appeared among the ten most sought after.
Disorders lead the ranking…
He anxiety disordereating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (TOC) and addictions occupy the first, fourth, fifth and seventh place, respectively. Doctoralia’s director of operations, Carlos Villaverde, assures that “the current socio-economic context has had an enormous impact on this type of pathology.”
…followed by intimate health
Although the presence of intimate health has decreased, this type of pathology continues to have a large presence. Human papillomavirus and menopause they occupy the sixth and tenth place in the classification.
Among the ten most sought-after diseases of 2022 in Doctoralia, those of a digestive nature also stand out, such as hemorrhoids, in second position, ‘helicobacter pylori’, in third, and irritable colon, in ninth place. Alopecia or abnormal hair loss is in eighth place.
