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The poor physical health of individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is presumed to occur through the stress-related compromise of multiple physiological systems producing an excess of somatic complaints and bona fide medical illnesses. Researchers using Swedish registries followed 144,919 individuals with stress-related disorders (PTSD, acute stress reaction, and adjustment disorder and other stress reactions), 184,612 unaffected siblings, and 1,449,190 age- and sex-matched general-population controls and examined associations of these stress disorders with subsequent risk for life-threatening infection (e.g., sepsis, endocarditis, meningitis).
In a mean 8-year follow-up, incidence per 1000 person-years for people with stress …