Beth E. Cohen, MD, MAS

Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder and related diagnoses have two to three times the rate of heart disease risk factors - tobacco use, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity - compared with veterans without such diagnoses, according to a study led by Beth E. Cohen, MD, MAS, a staff physician at SFVAMC and an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF. "These are young men and women, most of whom do not yet have heart disease," said Dr. Cohen. "If we can learn why they are at greater risk now, we can find ways to help them avoid heart disease later in life."
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