Cargando…
Health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be caused by life threatening illness, such as cancer and coronary events. The study by Forbes et al. made the unexpected finding that military personnel evacuation with medical illness have similar rates of PTSD to those evacuated with combat injuries. It m...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2012
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3523033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23095470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-126 |
_version_ | 1782253162124541952 |
---|---|
author | McFarlane, Alexander C |
author_facet | McFarlane, Alexander C |
author_sort | McFarlane, Alexander C |
collection | PubMed |
description | Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be caused by life threatening illness, such as cancer and coronary events. The study by Forbes et al. made the unexpected finding that military personnel evacuation with medical illness have similar rates of PTSD to those evacuated with combat injuries. It may be that the illness acts as a nonspecific stressor that interacts with combat exposures to increase the risk of PTSD. Conversely, the inflammatory consequence of systemic illness may augment the effects to traumatic stress and facilitate the immunological abnormalities that are now being associated with PTSD and depression. The impact of the stress on cytokine systems and their role in the onset of PTSD demands further investigation. Military personnel evacuated due to physical illness require similar screening and monitoring for the risk of PTSD to those injured who are already known to be at high risk. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-3523033 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2012 |
publisher | BioMed Central |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-35230332012-12-16 Health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings McFarlane, Alexander C BMC Med Commentary Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be caused by life threatening illness, such as cancer and coronary events. The study by Forbes et al. made the unexpected finding that military personnel evacuation with medical illness have similar rates of PTSD to those evacuated with combat injuries. It may be that the illness acts as a nonspecific stressor that interacts with combat exposures to increase the risk of PTSD. Conversely, the inflammatory consequence of systemic illness may augment the effects to traumatic stress and facilitate the immunological abnormalities that are now being associated with PTSD and depression. The impact of the stress on cytokine systems and their role in the onset of PTSD demands further investigation. Military personnel evacuated due to physical illness require similar screening and monitoring for the risk of PTSD to those injured who are already known to be at high risk. BioMed Central 2012-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3523033/ /pubmed/23095470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-126 Text en Copyright ©2012 McFarlane; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary McFarlane, Alexander C Health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings |
title | Health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings |
title_full | Health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings |
title_fullStr | Health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings |
title_full_unstemmed | Health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings |
title_short | Health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings |
title_sort | health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3523033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23095470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-126 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT mcfarlanealexanderc healthsurveillanceofdeployedmilitarypersonneloccasionallyleadstounexpectedfindings |