{"id":1147,"date":"2013-06-20T19:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/1-in-4-stroke-victims-experiences-ptsd-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:58","slug":"1-in-4-stroke-victims-experiences-ptsd-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/1-in-4-stroke-victims-experiences-ptsd-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 4 stroke victims experiences PTSD, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-link field-field-link-original-article\"><a id=\"HEBEC000022\" title=\"Post-traumatic Stress Disorder \" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/health\/behavioral-conditions\/post-traumatic-stress-disorder--HEBEC000022.topic\">Post-traumatic stress disorder<\/a>, known as PTSD, is not just a problem for military veterans, sexual assault survivors and other crime victims \u00a0\u2014 it also plagues many stroke victims, according to new research.<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0066435\">study<\/a>, published online Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, reports that 23% of stroke and mini-stroke victims surveyed within one year of the event suffered from PTSD. In addition, 11% of stroke victims surveyed more than a year after the event reported that they experienced PTSD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stroke.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=explainingstroke\">A stroke<\/a>\u00a0occurs when an artery carrying essential oxygen and nutrients to the brain is blocked or bursts, causing damage to the brain and potentially impairing speech, sight and motor control. A mini-stroke, also known as a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninds.nih.gov\/disorders\/tia\/tia.htm\">transient ischemic attack<\/a>, occurs in a similar way but lasts only a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Strokes kill about 137,000 people per year in the United States and in 2010 led to $73.7 billion in healthcare costs.<\/p>\n<p>The new research developed from a growing awareness that medical traumas can lead to PTSD. Study leader Donald Edmondson, an assistant professor at\u00a0<a id=\"OREDU000097\" title=\"Columbia University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/columbia-university-OREDU000097.topic\">Columbia University<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038915\">previously established<\/a>\u00a0that PTSD is common among\u00a0<a id=\"HEISY000062\" title=\"Heart Attack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/health\/physical-conditions\/heart-attack-HEISY000062.topic\">heart attack<\/a>\u00a0survivors and that it is linked to an increased risk of later developing<a id=\"HEDAI0000026\" title=\"Heart Disease\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/health\/diseases-illnesses\/heart-disease-HEDAI0000026.topic\">heart disease<\/a>. This led his team to question how often stroke victims develop PTSD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-ptsd-stroke-20130619,0,3672440.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post-traumatic stress disorder, known as PTSD, is not just a problem for military veterans, sexual assault survivors and other crime victims \u00a0\u2014 it also plagues many stroke victims, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}