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.
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Kristine Yaffe |
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.
"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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