{"id":14565,"date":"2019-06-12T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=14565"},"modified":"2019-06-11T22:53:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T03:53:24","slug":"american-heart-association-study-shows-veterans-with-depression-and-or-ptsd-more-likely-to-seek-cardiac-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2019\/06\/12\/american-heart-association-study-shows-veterans-with-depression-and-or-ptsd-more-likely-to-seek-cardiac-rehab\/","title":{"rendered":"American Heart Association study shows Veterans with depression and\/or PTSD more likely to seek cardiac rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanDallas, TX<\/strong> – According to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association<\/a>, <\/em>the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association\/American Stroke Association, veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and\/or depression were more likely to use cardiac rehabilitation services after an episode of ischemic heart disease<\/a> than those who didn\u2019t have PTSD or depression.<\/p>\n

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A large study offers new evidence that mental health disorders may not be a barrier to cardiac rehabilitation. (American Heart Association)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cPrior research has shown that patients with mental health conditions may have a greater risk for cardiovascular diseases, mainly because they are more likely to engage in unhealthy activities such as smoking, lack of exercise, poor diet and not taking medications as prescribed,\u201d said Nirupama Krishnamurthi, M.B.B.S., M.P.H, the study\u2019s lead author and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile cardiac rehab aims to decrease a patient\u2019s risk for cardiovascular events, previous studies have suggested mental health challenges such as depression may create barriers that hinder a patients\u2019 benefit from this service,\u201d Krishnamurthi stated.<\/p>\n

Using electronic health records from the national Veterans Administration Corporate Data Warehouse, researchers identified 86,537 patients (average age 67, mostly white non-Hispanic men) who had been hospitalized for heart attack<\/a> or coronary revascularization <\/a>at any of the Veterans Health Administration\u2019s 152 hospitals between 2010 and 2014.<\/p>\n

Researchers found:<\/strong><\/p>\n