The following are the major conditions or complications that may be contributed to by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD):
Factors that influence health status and lead to health care utilization (Z00-Z99).
- Suicide (suicide)
Skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99)
- Psoriasis (psoriasis)
Circulatory system (I00-I99)
- Angina pectoris (“chest tightness”; sudden onset of pain in the heart area).
- Apoplexy (stroke)
- Endocarditis (endocarditis; 5-fold increased risk).
- Heart failure (cardiac insufficiency)
- Myocarditis (heart muscle inflammation) 5-fold increased risk).
Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99)
- Rheumatoid arthritis – chronic inflammatory multisystem disease, usually manifested in the form of synovitis (inflammation of the synovial membrane).
Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99)
- Dependency diseases/addictive disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Dissociative identity disorders – in which different personality states (dissociative identities) take turns controlling how a person thinks, feels, and acts
- Insomnia (sleep disorders)
- Meningitis (meningitis)
- Panic disorders
- Psychoses
- Pain syndromes (after an accident)
- Somatoform disorders – form of mental illness that leads to physical symptoms without physical findings.
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory parameters not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
- Suicidality (suicide risk).
Injuries, poisonings, and certain other sequelae of external causes (S00-T98).
- Fracture (broken bone)
Further
- Increased mortality
- Promotion of autoimmune diseases due toeffects of stress via hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis on immune system
- Reduced life expectancy (up to 20 years).
