PTSD associated with increased risk of heart disease in women veterans: JAMA
USA: PTSD increases the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in women veterans, finds a recent study in the journal JAMA Cardiology. This may have implications for the assessment of IHD risk in vulnerable people.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is known to be associated with a increased IHD risk in pre dominantly male populations or limited community samples. Women veterans represent a growing, yet understudied, population that has high levels of trauma exposure and unique risk of cardiovascular disease. But there is a lack of research on IHD and PTSD in this group. Incident IHD is defined as new-onset coronary artery disease, angina, or myocardial infarction.
Ramin Ebrahimi, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, Los Angeles, California, and colleagues aimed to determine the associations between PTSD and incident IHD among women veterans.
For the purpose, the researchers conducted a retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of the national Veterans Health Administration (VHA) electronic medical records. They tested a priori hypothesis that PTSD would be associated with greater risk of IHD onset.
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