PTSD and obesity in younger and older veterans Results from the mind your heart study》.pdf

Psychiatry Research 229 (2015) 895–900 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Psychiatry Research journal homepage: /locate/psychres PTSD and obesity in younger and older veterans: Results from the mind your heart study Brian N. Smith a,b,n, Anna L. Tyzik a, Thomas C. Neylan c,d, Beth E. Cohen d,e a National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States b Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States c Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States d San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States e Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is increasingly recognized as a relatively common condition that is Received 12 August 2014 associated with poor health, including obesity. With a sizable proportion of the population approaching Received in revised form older adulthood, it is important to understand PTSD-health associations in the context of age. Partici- 23 June 2015 pants were recruited from two Veterans Administration medical centers and included 380 patients age Accepted 12 July 2015 60 and over and 365 under age 60. PTSD diagnosis was determined by the Clinician Administered PTSD Available online 16 July 2015 Scale. BMI was trichot