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Title:

Posttraumatic stress symptoms and predicted mortality in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: results from the prospective living with an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator study.

Document type:
Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Article
Author(s):
Ladwig, KH; Baumert, J; Marten-Mittag, B; Kolb, C; Zrenner, B; Schmitt, C
Abstract:
CONTEXT: Cardiac disease and treatment with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) may be psychologically traumatic. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is generally overlooked in cardiac patients, and no study to date (to our knowledge) has evaluated the effect of PTSD symptoms on the prognosis in patients with ICDs. OBJECTIVE: To test whether PTSD symptoms at baseline predict long-term mortality risk in patients with ICDs. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study with a mean follow-up period...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Arch Gen Psychiatry
Year:
2008
Journal volume:
65
Journal issue:
11
Pages contribution:
1324-30
Language:
eng
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1001/archpsyc.65.11.1324
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18981344
Print-ISSN:
0003-990X
TUM Institution:
I. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik (Kardiologie); Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie
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