Depression and PTSD after September 11.
PTSD PTSD posttraumatic stress disorder.
PTSD
abbr.
posttraumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in NYC. JAMA JAMA
abbr.
Journal of the American Medical Association 2002; 287:1930
The number of people with depression and posttraumatic stress
disorder Posttraumatic stress disorder
An anxiety disorder in some individuals who have experienced an event that poses a direct threat to the individual's or another person's life. (PTSD) increased two or three times among residents living in
the surrounding area in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist
attacks. Twenty percent of those living closest to the disaster site
reported PTSD, three times the rate of others in Manhattan. In a
telephone survey conducted in October 2001 by the New York Academy of
Medicine The New York Academy of Medicine was founded in 1847 by a group of leading New York City metropolitan area physicians as a voice for the medical profession in medical practice and public health reform. and other institutions, 14% of respondents had symptoms of PTSD
or depression.
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