Post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiometabolic disease: Improving causal inference to inform practice

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 209-225

  Koenen, K C ^a,b   Sumner, J A ^a,c   Gilsanz, P ^a   Glymour, M M ^a,d   Ratanatharathorn, A ^a,e   Rimm, E B ^a,f   Roberts, A L ^a   Winning, A ^a   Kubzansky, L D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Department of Medicine   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; causality; diabetes; post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPLICATION; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84990192576     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291716002294     Document Type: Review

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