Women may face higher PTSD risk, and biomarker could help predict it
Research from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine suggests a specific stress hormone pattern may signal vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder—at least in female animal models—and could help explain why women are diagnosed with PTSD at roughly twice the rate of men.
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