{"id":29863,"date":"2012-06-21T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29863"},"modified":"2012-06-20T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:05:07","slug":"ptsd-relatively-common-among-patients-with-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/06\/21\/ptsd-relatively-common-among-patients-with-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"PTSD Relatively Common Among Patients with Heart Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 1 in 8 patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) subsequently suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038915\">meta-analysis<\/a> in <em>PLoS ONE<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analyzed 24 studies comprising nearly 2400 patients with ACS. At a mean 5.7 months following an ACS event, 12% of the patients had clinically significant symptoms of PTSD assessed by questionnaires or clinical interviews. An analysis of three studies found that those with PTSD had double the risk for a subsequent cardiac event or mortality.<\/p>\n<p>The authors caution that PTSD prevalence in the individual studies ranged from 0% to 32%, suggesting considerable heterogeneity. &#8220;Caveats aside,&#8221; they write, &#8220;there is now considerable evidence for a link between PTSD due to various life stressors and subsequent heart disease.&#8221; They propose that the effects of inflammation associated with PTSD may also affect the heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 1 in 8 patients with acute coronary syndromes subsequently suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a meta-analysis in PLoS ONE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[245,1329],"class_list":["post-29863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-mi","tag-ptsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}