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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 17.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Behav Med. 2010 Feb;39(1):61–78. doi: 10.1007/s12160-010-9165-9

Figure 1. Model of PTSD and Cardiovascular/Metabolic Disease.

Figure 1

Model of the influences of traumatic stress risk, PTSD, psychological states, and health behavior on pre-clinical disease markers. It is proposed that pre-clinical disease biomarkers then progress to cardiovascular/metabolic disease through autonomic dysregulation, endothelial dysfunction, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance. This figure modified from Schnurr & Jankowski (8).