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High Blood Pressure

Also called: HBP, HTN, Hypertension

BLOOD PRESSURE

    Is the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries.
    Each time your heart beats, it pumps out blood into the arteries.
    SYSTOLIC PRESSURE: when your heart beats, pumping the blood.  
    DIASTOLIC PRESSURE: When your heart is at rest, between beats, and your blood pressure falls.

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Post-traumatic Stress

Health Care Utilization and Its Costs for Depressed Veterans With and Without Comorbid PTSD Symptoms

Health Care Utilization and Its Costs for Depressed Veterans With and Without Comorbid PTSD Symptoms

Domin Chan, Ph.D. M.H.S., Allen D. Cheadle, Ph.D., Gayle Reiber, Ph.D., M.P.H., Jürgen Unützer, M.D., M.P.H. and Edmund F. Chaney, Ph.D.

OBJECTIVE: This study examined health care utilization and costs of care among Veterans Affairs (VA) patients with depression and with or without symptoms of comorbid post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).