Population
Healthy populations and people with existing heart disease
Design
Review
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May support anxiety/PTSD screening in cardiac care; extends associations but leaves open randomized evidence for outcome impact.
Anxiety and PTSD are recognized as risk factors for the development of heart disease and are associated with increased morbidity in patients with existing heart disease, highlighting the importance of screening and appropriate referral.
Copland et al. (2011) studied this question.
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