Twenty‐four‐hour ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate monitoring in combat‐related posttraumatic stress disorder
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Traumatic Stress
- Vol. 11 (3) , 473-484
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024400628342
Abstract
This study examined the cardiovascular correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam combat veterans using 24‐hr ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate monitoring. Veterans with PTSD (n = 11) exhibited significantly higher heart rate and diastolic blood pressure across the 24 hr than veterans without PTSD (n = 7) (80.8 vs. 71.9 bpm, and 80.1 vs. 71.5 mm Hg, respectively). Heart rate during sleep was also significantly higher among veterans with PTSD, compared to veterans without PTSD (71.0 vs. 62.7 bpm). These results, based on a more naturalistic measurement methodology used outside the laboratory, support an association between PTSD and increased chronic cardiovascular arousal.Keywords
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