The association of traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder with physical morbidity in old age: A german population-based study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 401-406

  Glaesmer, Heide ^a   Brähler, Elmar ^a   Gündel, Harald ^b   Riedel Heller, Steffi G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

disease burden; elderly; general population; physical morbidity; PTSD; trauma

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GERMAN; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; STOMACH DISEASE; THYROID DISEASE; TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 79958102937     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31821b47e8     Document Type: Article

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