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Toward Understanding Sex Differences in the Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

DOI

61

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0

References

2018

Year

Carlos Blanco, Nicolas Hoertel, Melanie M. Wall, Sílvia Franco, Hugo Peyre, Yuval Neria, Liat Helpman, Frédéric Limosin
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Abstract

The higher prevalence of PTSD among women appears to be due mainly to their greater vulnerability to the effects of traumatic events.