Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk for coronary heart disease: a meta-analytic review.
Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk for coronary heart disease: a meta-analytic review.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ahj.2013.07.031
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发表时间:
2013-11
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Burg MM
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作者:
Edmondson D;Kronish IM;Shaffer JA;Falzon L;Burg MM
To estimate the association of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with risk for incident coronary heart disease (CHD) Systematic review and meta-analysis Ovid MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Scopus, Cochrane Library, PILOTS database, PubMed Related Articles, and a manual search of reference lists (1948-present) All studies that assessed PTSD in participants initially free of CHD and subsequently assessed CHD/cardiac-specific mortality were included. Two investigators independently extracted estimates of the association of PTSD to CHD, as well as study characteristics. Odds ratios were converted to hazard ratios (HR), and a random-effects model was used to pool results. A secondary analysis including only studies that reported estimates adjusted for depression was conducted. Six studies met our inclusion criteria (N= 402,274); 5 of these included depression as a covariate. The pooled HR for the magnitude of the relationship between PTSD and CHD was 1.55 (95% CI, 1.34–1.79) before adjustment for depression. The pooled HR estimate for the 5 depression-adjusted estimates (N= 362,950) was 1.27 (95% CI, 1.08–1.49). PTSD is independently associated with increased risk for incident CHD, even after adjusting for depression and other covariates. PTSD is common in both military veterans and civilian trauma survivors, and these results suggest that it may be a modifiable risk factor for CHD. Future research should identify mechanisms of this association and determine whether PTSD treatment offsets CHD risk.