. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 29.

Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Stress. 2017 Jan 18;30(1):36–44. doi: 10.1002/jts.22162

Table 2.

Burden of Persistent Serious Mental Illness and Other Mental Health Disorders by Gender-- Based on VA Chart Diagnoses between 1994 and 2006

Diagnosis	Cohort Men		Cohort Women
	N = 1,067		N = 1,513

	n	%	n	%
Persistent serious mental illness	108	10.1	327	21.6^***
Persistent PTSD	816	76.5	988	65.3^***
Serious mental illness, diagnosed ever
Bipolar disorder	212	19.9	495	32.7^***
Schizophrenia or Schizo-affective disorder	127	11.9	269	17.8^***
Other mental health disorders, diagnosed ever
Anxiety disorder	426	39.9	778	51.4^***
Depressive disorder	761	71.3	1201	79.4^***
PTSD	931	87.3	1230	81.3^***

PTSD = Posttraumatic stress disorder.

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