Open AccessClinically meaningful posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) improvement and incident hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and weight loss.
Author(s) -
Jeffrey F. Scherrer,
Joanne Salas,
Matthew J. Friedman,
Beth E. Cohen,
Frank Schneider,
Patrick J. Lustman,
Carissa van den BerkClark,
Kathleen M. Chard,
Peter W. Tuerk,
Sonya B. Norman,
Paula P. Schnurr
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1930-7810
pISSN - 0278-6133
DOI - 10.1037/hea0000855
Subject(s) - medicine , hyperlipidemia , hazard ratio , weight loss , confounding , diabetes mellitus , proportional hazards model , confidence interval , endocrinology , obesity
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with increased risk for cardiometabolic disease. Clinically meaningful PTSD improvement is associated with a lower risk for diabetes, but it is not known if similar associations exist for incident hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and clinically relevant weight loss (i.e., ≥5% loss).