MedPage Today (4/10, Lyles) reports that research indicates “clinically-confirmed stress conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or acute stress reaction, may be linked to an increased cardiovascular disease risk.” In the study that included “130,000 people with stress-related disorders, 170,000 of their unaffected full siblings, and 1.4 million matched unexposed individuals in the general population,” researchers found that “cardiovascular disease was most common among such patients, at 10.5 per 1,000 person-years compared with 8.4 and 6.9 per 1,000 person-years for unaffected full siblings and for the matched unexposed individuals, respectively, over up to 27 years of follow-up.” The data indicated that “the highest hazard ratios were 3.37 for cardiac arrest, 5.64 for cerebrovascular disease other than stroke or arachnoidal bleeding, 5.00 for conduction disorders, and 6.95 for heart failure, all of which were significant within the first year of a stress related disorder diagnosis.” The findings were published online in the BMJ.
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