Posttraumatic stress disorder and incident heart failure among a community-based sample of US veterans

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 757-763

  Roy, Samit S ^a,b   Foraker, Randi E ^a   Girton, Richard A ^d   Mansfield, Alyssa J ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c National Center for PTSD   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACIFIC ISLANDS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VETERAN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACIFIC ISLANDS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84924705842     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302342     Document Type: Article

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