{"id":10503,"date":"2017-10-13T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/?p=10503"},"modified":"2017-10-16T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:19:29","slug":"detecting-mental-health-conditions-in-women-veterans-helps-identify-risk-for-cardiovascular-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/2017\/10\/13\/detecting-mental-health-conditions-in-women-veterans-helps-identify-risk-for-cardiovascular-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Detecting Mental Health Conditions in Women Veterans Helps To Identify Their Risk for Cardiovascular Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/medicine\/files\/2017\/10\/women-veteran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medicine\/files\/2017\/10\/women-veteran-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"Female American Soldier - Stock image\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2017\/10\/women-veteran-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2017\/10\/women-veteran.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>A research team from BUSM and the VA Boston Healthcare System, which included corresponding author Megan Gerber, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, conducted a study that found\u00a0Women Veterans that exhibit a high degree of mental health issues are associated with an increased risk for coronary artery disease (CAD).\u00a0<\/span>The study also found that with each additional mental health condition (depression, anxiety and psychotic disorders), the odds of CAD increased by at least 40%. Read more:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/2017\/10\/11\/detecting-mental-health-conditions-in-women-veterans-helps-identify-risk-for-cardiovascular-disease\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/2017\/10\/11\/detecting-mental-health-conditions-in-women-veterans-helps-identify-risk-for-cardiovascular-disease\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team from BUSM and the VA Boston Healthcare System, which included corresponding author Megan Gerber, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, conducted a study that found\u00a0Women Veterans that exhibit a high degree of mental health issues are associated with an increased risk for coronary artery disease (CAD).\u00a0The study also found that with each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}