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Study: Women Warriors at No Greater Risk Than Men for Developing PTSD (August 21, 2015)

Category: Combat Stress (PTSD/TBI/Other Conditions)

More than 2,300 pairs of men and women, matched based on a number of different variables which included combat exposure were followed on average for about seven years.  Dr. Shira Maguen, one of the study's authors, noted:

"This is the first study to prospectively investigate the development of PTSD in male and female service members who were matched on multiple important characteristics that could explain some of the differences in PTSD, including military sexual trauma.  We found no gender differences in the development of PTSD. Consequently, our focus should be on the types of traumatic experiences that people have been exposed to, rather than any inherent gender differences in the development of PTSD."

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