ReviewHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2022
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a systemic disorder: Pathways to cardiovascular disease.
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- DNA Methylation as a Mediator of Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Relation to PTSD Severity: Identification of Potential Epigenetic Biomarkers.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- History of Trauma Exposure and Post-Traumatic Stress Spectrum Symptoms in a Sample of Bariatric Surgery Candidates: Clinical Correlates and Association with Maladaptive Eating Behaviours.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Observational
- Causal relationship between inflammatory cytokines and posttraumatic stress disorder: a Mendelian randomization study and potential mechanism analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
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- Preliminary Results from an RCT Examining the Effects of a Health Behavior Intervention as an Adjunct to Standard Trauma Therapy Among Adults with PTSD.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Quantifying the independent impact of social determinants of health and posttraumatic stress disorder on resource utilization and health outcomes in civilians.Psychiatry research · 2025Article
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- Psychometric evaluation of a novel measure of trauma-related eating to cope.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Telomere Dynamics in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Critical Synthesis.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- A genetic exploration of the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular diseases.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Implications for optimizing treatment timing: day of week variation in PTSD symptom clusters.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and its association with adverse childhood experiences among refugee and host-community children and adolescents in Jordan.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- A randomized, 12-month, parallel-group trial testing the effects of a cognitive behavioral healthy lifestyle intervention as an adjunct to standard trauma therapy among adults with PTSD: the I-CHAT study protocol.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Cardiometabolic Morbidity (Obesity and Hypertension) in PTSD: A Preliminary Investigation of the Validity of Two Structures of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Exaggerated Peripheral and Systemic Vasoconstriction During Trauma Recall in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Co-Twin Control Study.Biological psychiatry · 2024Article
- Associations between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Diabetes in Vietnam-Era Women Veterans in the HealthViEWS Study.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2024Article
- Association of psychiatric disorders with clinical diagnosis of long COVID in US veterans.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Evidence indicates that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a significant risk factor for the development and progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Most explanations for PTSD-CVD associations conceptualize PTSD as a stress-related mental health disorder that elicits physiological, behavioral, and psychological responses that are causal factors in the development of cardiovascular disorders. This article reviews evidence for the broader physical health consequences of PTSD, and presents a conceptual model based on research suggesting that PTSD is a systemic disorder. Specifically, research findings indicate that diagnostic criteria are just the "tip of the iceberg" of a broader systemic disorder with elements that are cardiovascular risk factors. These systemic physiological and behavioral elements therefore should not be regarded as accompanying but unrelated diseases or comorbidities, but as inherent components of PTSD that directly impact the development of CVD. The systemic disorder approach has implications for the conceptualization of PTSD as a cardiovascular risk factor, for needed research on PTSD and CVD, and for clinical efforts to reduce PTSD-associated cardiovascular risk. It is suggested that treatments that aim to reduce cardiovascular disease risk need to address both the PTSD diagnostic components and its associated cardiovascular risk factors. Further research is needed to test the applicability and implications of the systemic disorder perspective. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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