NIH R01 · 2024
Positive and Negative Psychological Predictors of Long-Term Recovery after Cardiac Arrest
With advances in healthcare and effective public health campaigns, the survival rate after cardiac arrest (CA) has more than doubled during the last decade. However, as highlighted by a scientific statement from the American Heart Association in 2020, CA patients remain at markedly elevated risk for poor long-term recovery after leaving the hospital. We have shown that the experience of CA can be a psychologically distressing event that induces depressive and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in >30% of patients. Further, these symptoms were associated with a tripling of risk for secondary cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality risk in our prior work. Despite a growing…
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