Life's essential 8: updating and enhancing the American Heart Association's construct of cardiovascular health: a presidential advisory from the American Heart …

DM Lloyd-Jones, NB Allen, CAM Anderson, T Black… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
In 2010, the American Heart Association defined a novel construct of cardiovascular health
to promote a paradigm shift from a focus solely on disease treatment to one inclusive of …

Psychological health, well-being, and the mind-heart-body connection: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

GN Levine, BE Cohen, Y Commodore-Mensah… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
As clinicians delivering health care, we are very good at treating disease but often not as
good at treating the person. The focus of our attention has been on the specific physical …

Post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular disease

D Edmondson, R von Känel - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2017 - thelancet.com
In this paper, a first in a Series of two, we look at the evidence for an association of post-
traumatic stress disorder with incident cardiovascular disease risk and the mechanisms that …

Posttraumatic stress disorder, cardiovascular, and metabolic disease: a review of the evidence

EA Dedert, PS Calhoun, LL Watkins… - Annals of Behavioral …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a significant risk factor for
cardiovascular and metabolic disease. Purpose The purpose of the current review is to …

Psychological trauma and physical health: A psychoneuroimmunology approach to etiology of negative health effects and possible interventions.

K Kendall-Tackett - … Trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
People who have experienced traumatic events have higher rates than the general
population of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses including cardiovascular …

Post-traumatic stress disorder, coronary atherosclerosis, and mortality

N Ahmadi, F Hajsadeghi, HB Mirshkarlo… - The American journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with increased risk of multiple medical
problems including myocardial infarction. However, a direct link between PTSD and …

Post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiometabolic disease: improving causal inference to inform practice

KC Koenen, JA Sumner, P Gilsanz… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been declared 'a life sentence'based on evidence
that the disorder leads to a host of physical health problems. Some of the strongest empirical …

Physical health problems after single trauma exposure: When stress takes root in the body

W D'Andrea, R Sharma… - Journal of the …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Research has established that chronic stress, including traumatic events, leads to adverse
health outcomes. The literature has primarily used two approaches: examining the effect of …

Behavioral, emotional and neurobiological determinants of coronary heart disease risk in women

V Vaccarino, JD Bremner - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Women have more of the stress-related behavioral profile that has been linked to
cardiovascular disease than men. For example, women double the rates of stress-related …

Posttraumatic stress disorder and cardiometabolic disease

AB Levine, LM Levine, TB Levine - Cardiology, 2013 - karger.com
The need for addressing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among combat veterans
returning from Afghanistan and Iraq is a growing public health concern. Current PTSD …