Comorbidities with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among combat veterans: 15 years postwar analysis.

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Author	Britvić, Dolores Antičević, Vesna Kaliterna, Mariano Lušić, Linda Beg, Anđelko Brajević-Gizdić, Igna Kudrić, Mirjana Stupalo, Željana Krolo, Vikica Pivac, Nela
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in the prevalence of somatic diseases among combat veterans and their contemporaries who were not exposed to the traumatic experience at the battlefield, and to determine whether socio-demographic factors, exposure to war-time trauma and/or injury might predict individual somatic diseases. The study included 1,558 subjects living in south Croatia: 501 male combat veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the corresponding control group of 825 men who were not exposed to combat experience. Veterans with PTSD, regardless of the length of time spent in war, suffered more often from cardiovascular, dermatological, musculoskeletal, pulmonary and metabolic diseases than corresponding control subjects who were not exposed to combat experience. The predictors of cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and malignant diseases in veterans were age, length of time spent in combat, having been wounded. A longer period in the combat zone was associated with arrhythmias in veterans with PTSD complicated with other psychiatric comorbidities. PTSD as a result of exposure to war trauma increases the possibility of developing somatic diseases.
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ISSN	16972600
Journal	International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology : IJCHP [Int J Clin Health Psychol]
Volume Number	15
DOI	10.1016/j.ijchp.2014.11.002
PubMed Central reference number	PMC6224772
Issue Number	2
PubMed reference number	30487825
e-ISSN	21740852
Language	English
Publisher	Asociacion Espanola de Psicologia Conductual
Publisher Date	2014-12-25
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). © 2014 Asociación Espa˜nola de Psicología Conductual. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. This.
Subject Keyword	PTSD Combat Veterans Survey descriptive study TEPT Combate Veteranos Estudio descriptivo mediante encuestas
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Clinical Psychology