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June 23, 2010
Study Examines PTSD, Increased Risk Of Dementia Among Older Veterans.
Reuters (6/8, Harding) reports that a related study published in the June 8 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry has found that veterans over the age of 55 with PTSD may be almost twice as likely to become demented as veterans who do not have PTSD.
Researchers from the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California-San Francisco arrived at that conclusion after tracking some 180,000 veterans over the age of 55 for seven years. The researchers theorized that years of prolonged stress may cause changes in the brain leading to dementia.
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- PTSD may boost dementia risk in older vets," Anne Harding, Reuters, June 7, 2010.
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