Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Cardiovascular Disease
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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Cardiovascular Disease
This review provides an up-to-date summary of the evidence from clinical and epidemiologic studies indicating that persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may have an increased risk of coronary heart disease and possibly thromboembolic stroke. Persons with PTSD, a common anxiety disorder in both veteran and nonveteran populations, have been reported to have an increased risk of hyper...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1874-1924
DOI: 10.2174/1874192401105010164