Population
23 patients consecutively admitted for first myocardial infarction
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
two years
Authors
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Suggests low PTSD incidence after MI; leaves open confirmation and screening implications in larger prospective cohorts.
The incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder two years after a first myocardial infarction appears to be low, affecting 1 in 18 survivors in this small cohort.
Driel et al. (1995) studied this question.
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