Female Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were more likely to be diagnosed with depression than their male counterparts, who were more likely to be diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, a retrospective study of U.S. veterans has shown.
These were among the significant gender differences between the male and female veterans identified in the study, which looked at sociodemographic and mental health characteristics among 329,049 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who went to a Veterans Affairs health care facility at least once between April 2002 and March 2008, the first time they had used the facilities since the start of the two wars (Am. J. Public Health 2010;100:2450-6).
By: ELIZABETH MECHCATIE, Internal Medicine News Digital Network
Age, Gender Linked to Mental Health Diagnoses Among Recent Vets : Internal Medicine News
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