Weight loss and PTSD symptom severity in former POWs

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 278-280

  Myers, Michael W ^a   Kimbrell, Tim A ^a,b   Booe, Leroy Q ^a   Freeman, Thomas W ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

POW; PTSD; Veteran; Weight loss; WW2

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISONER; SOLDIER; WAR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; KOREAN WAR; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; WEIGHT LOSS; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 17044373620     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000158371.04163.2b     Document Type: Article

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