Posttraumatic Stress, Nonadherence, and Adverse Outcome in Survivors of a Myocardial Infarction
Eyal Shemesh, MD,
Rachel Yehuda, PhD,
Olga Milo, MD,
Irit Dinur, RN,
Abraham Rudnick, MD, PhD,
Zvi Vered, MD and
Gad Cotter, MD
From the Departments of Psychiatry (E.S., R.Y.), and Pediatrics (E.S.), Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, and the Clinical Pharmacological Research Unit, The Cardiology Institute, Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, (O.M., I.D., Z.V., G.C.), and Sackler School of Medicine (A.R.), Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Figure 2. Kaplan-Meier analysis of the likelihood of a cardiovascular readmission during the study as a function of the PTSD symptom status. PTSD = above-threshold scores on the Impact of Event Scale. No PTSD = below-threshold scores on the Impact of Event Scale.
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