Medscape (12/14, Brooks, Subscription Publication) reports, “Middle-aged women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comorbid depression have a nearly fourfold increased risk for early death from a variety of causes in comparison with their peers who do not have those conditions,” investigators concluded in a study that included “more than 51,000 mostly White women from the Nurses Health Study II who were followed for nine years (2008 to 2017).” The findings were published online in JAMA Network Open.
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