PTSD News

Patients with stress-related disorders including PTSD, adjustment disorder, acute stress reaction and other stress reactions had an increased risk for CVD compared with those without disorders, according to a study published in The BMJ.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Before dispensing medical marijuana to inpatients, hospitalists should examine their state and federal laws to protect themselves, according to a presentation at Hospital Medicine 2019.

Patients with cancer who were hospitalized for mental health problems prior to their diagnosis were more than 73% likely to die from their cancer compared with those who had no mental health history, according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer.

In a national sample of more than 16,000 Veteran Affairs patients with PTSD, only about one-third of veterans completed the adequate amount of evidence-based psychotherapy, according to study findings.

The increased risk for CVD in patients with PTSD was associated with psychiatric and physical conditions, in addition to smoking, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

How the brain and body respond to learning danger and safety depended on the severity of PTSD symptoms in veterans with combat trauma, according to study findings.

Some patients were more likely to develop PTSD and/or major depressive disorder following mild traumatic brain injury, or TBI — particularly those with a history of mental health problems and those with TBI resulting from assault or violence, according to study findings.

A novel logistic model using early PTSD symptom severity as a predictor — as measured by the initial Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale total score — yielded accurate estimates of follow-up PTSD in recent trauma survivors seen in acute care centers, according to findings published in World Psychiatry.

In a Danish population-based cohort study of almost 6 million people, researchers found that individuals with any mental disorder were at increased risk for comorbid mental disorders.

PTSD following terrorist attacks was linked to higher prevalence of neoplastic disease, according to study findings published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research.