PTSD raises odds of heart attack and stroke in women

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-06/cums-pro062515.php

Public Release: 29-Jun-2015
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health

Women with elevated symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder consistent with the clinical threshold for the disorder had 60 percent higher rates of having a heart attack or stroke compared with women who never experienced trauma, according to scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Results appear in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association.

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