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== Physiological effects and disease ==
{{See also|Health psychology}}
Perseverative cognition is involved with a “stress-disease link".<ref name="BPT2005" /> Further, it is the thinking about the stress, or rather the obsessing over it, that establishes a link between stress and disease. Perseverative cognition also focuses on the effects that worrying over anticipated events have on the physical body and mind.<ref name="BGT2006" /> This could suggest that obsessive worrying over past events or the future could lead to physical issues.