The unique association of posttraumatic stress disorder with hypertension among veterans: A replication of Kibler et al. (2009) using Bayesian estimation and data from the United States-Veteran Microbiome Project.

Daniel J Reis Alexander M Kaizer Adam R KinneyNazanin H BahrainiJeri E ForsterLisa A Brenner

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2022)

PTSD diagnosis and symptom severity are uniquely associated with hypertension, independent of MDD or depressive symptom severity. These results support previous findings that PTSD might be a modifiable risk factor for the prevention and treatment of hypertension. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

posttraumatic stress disorder
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