Post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiometabolic disease: improving causal inference to inform practice

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been declared ‘a life sentence’ based on evidence that the disorder leads to a host of physical health problems. Some of the strongest empirical research – in terms of methodology and findings – has shown that PTSD predicts higher risk of cardiometabolic dis...

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Published in:	Psychological medicine Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 209 - 225
Main Authors:	Koenen, K. C., Sumner, J. A., Gilsanz, P., Glymour, M. M., Ratanatharathorn, A., Rimm, E. B., Roberts, A. L., Winning, A., Kubzansky, L. D.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.01.2017
Subjects:	Anxiety Bipolar disorder Cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular diseases Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology Causality Criminal sentences Diabetes Diabetes mellitus Diabetes mellitus (non-insulin dependent) Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - etiology Disease Disorders Epidemiology Health problems Health risk assessment Health status Humans Inference Medical research Medicine Mental health Mortality Phenomenology Phenotypes Post traumatic stress disorder Research methodology Risk factors Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - complications Time Trauma Traumatic stress Type 2 diabetes mellitus New York San Francisco California Vietnam United States > US Cardiovascular disease post-traumatic stress disorder diabetes causality
ISSN:	0033-2917, 1469-8978
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