Post-traumatic stress disorder: Emerging risk factor and mechanisms

Stress and Cardiovascular Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 235-256

  Von Känel, Roland ^a   Ferrari, Marie Louise Gander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clinical management; Emerging risk factor; Mechanisms; Pathophysiologic links; Post traumatic stress disorder; Predictors; Prevalence; Therapeutic approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885850917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-419-5_13     Document Type: Chapter

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