Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Cardiovascular Disease
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Cardiovascular Disease
In this paper, a first in a Series of two, we look at the evidence for an association of post-traumatic stress disorder with incident cardiovascular disease risk and the mechanisms that might cause this association, as well as the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder due to cardiovascular disease events and its associated prognostic risk. We discuss research done after the publication o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0033-0620
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2013.03.004