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THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) — For young and middle-aged veterans, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with an increased risk for early incident transient ischemic attack (TIA) and ischemic stroke, according to a study published online Oct. 17 in Stroke<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Lindsey Rosman, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, and colleagues examined the incidence of TIA and ischemic stroke in a cohort of 987,855 young and middle-aged veterans (mean age, 30.29 \u00b1 9.19 years). The authors examined the effect of PTSD on incident stroke.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that TIA and ischemic stroke were diagnosed in 766 and 1,877 patients, respectively, during a 13-year period. During follow-up, PTSD was diagnosed in 28.6 percent of the sample. PTSD was significantly associated with new-onset TIA and ischemic stroke in unadjusted analyses (hazard ratios, 2.02 and 1.62, respectively). The correlations remained significant in fully adjusted models (hazard ratios, 1.61 and 1.36, respectively). PTSD had a stronger effect on ischemic stroke risk in men than in women (hazard ratio, 0.63), while sex had no effect for TIA.<\/p>\n
“This work will pave the way forward for the development of future age-appropriate surveillance strategies, risk stratification tools, guidelines, and public education campaigns to reduce the growing burden of stroke in young adults,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
One author disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n
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