Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Increases Dementia Run A Jeopardy Inward Veterans

The written report followed 181,093 veterans aged 55 years too older without dementia.

53,155 veterans diagnosed alongside Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
and, 127,938 veterans without PTSD
The written report used information from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Patient Care Database.

The written report institute that inwards a predominately manly mortal veteran population, those diagnosed alongside PTSD were at a close two-fold higher conduct a opportunity of developing dementia compared to veterans without PTSD.

PTSD Linked to Nearly Double Dementia Risk inwards Veterans

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Kristine Yaffe

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is mutual amid veterans returning from fighting too at that spot is roughly bear witness that it may hold upward associated alongside reduced cognitive function. However, no written report has yet investigated if PTSD increases the conduct a opportunity of developing dementia.

To address this emerging issue, Kristine Yaffe, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology too Epidemiology too Associate Chair of Research for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, too Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry too Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, too colleagues sought to produce upward one's hear if PTSD is associated alongside conduct a opportunity of developing dementia amid older veterans inwards the U.S. receiving handling inwards veterans' medical centers.

They studied 181,093 veterans aged 55 years too older without dementia (53,155 veterans diagnosed alongside PTSD too 127,938 veterans without PTSD) using information from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Patient Care Database. Mean baseline historic menstruation of the veterans was 68.8 years too 97% were male. They followed the veterans from 2001 through 2007, including tracking whether they were diagnosed alongside Alzheimer's/dementia.

The researchers institute that veterans alongside PTSD inwards the written report developed novel cases of dementia at a charge per unit of measurement of 10.6% over the 7 years of follow-up; those without PTSD had a charge per unit of measurement of 6.6%. (Note: This is updated information from the researcher, which is why it differs from the attached abstract.) Even afterward adjusting for demographics, too medical too psychiatric comorbidities, PTSD patients inwards this written report were even too then close twice every bit probable to educate incident dementia compared to veterans without PTSD (HR = 1.8, 95% CI 1.7-1.9). Results were similar when they excluded those alongside a history of traumatic encephalon injury, pith abuse or depression.

"It is critical to follow patients alongside PTSD, too evaluate them early on for dementia," Yaffe said. "Further question is needed to fully sympathize what links these 2 of import disorders. With that cognition nosotros may hold upward able to abide by ways to trim down the increased conduct a opportunity of dementia associated alongside PTSD."

Kristine Yaffe, Eric Vittinghoff, Karla Lindquist, Deborah E. Barnes, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Thomas Neylan, Molly Kluse, Charles Marmar
UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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