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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Ann. 2016;46:527–532. doi: 10.3928/00485713-20160729-01

Figure 1.

Figure 1

provides a conceptual model of the hypothesized associations between PTSD and cardiometabolic health problems via biological and health behavior pathways. The figure also reflects the potential for these pathways to exert synergistic effects and for cardiometabolic health problems to further compromise health behaviors and biological systems.