Post-trauma cardiovascular risk factors and subclinical atherosclerosis in young adults following the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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dc.citation.spage1601988
dc.citation.volume10
dc.contributor.authorVulic, Dusko
dc.contributor.authorSecerov Zecevic, Drenka
dc.contributor.authorBurgic, Marija
dc.contributor.authorVujkovic, Zoran
dc.contributor.authorRistic, Sinisa
dc.contributor.authorMarinkovic, Jelena
dc.contributor.authorMedenica, Snezana
dc.contributor.authorWong, Nathan D.
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-14T08:37:22Z
dc.date.available2023-07-14T08:37:22Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractBackground: Risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been associated with stress from serving in a war, but it has not been established whether children who experience warrelated stress are at increased CVD risk. Objective: This study aimed to compare CVD risk factors in young adults according to whether they experienced traumatic events as children during the 1990–1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and whether those exposed to trauma have evidence of subclinical atherosclerosis. Method: We examined 372 first-year medical students who were preschool children during the war (1990–1995) (average age 19.5 ± 1.7 years, 67% female) in 2007–2010. They completed the Semi-Structured Interview for Survivors of War. CVD risk factors and carotid intima–media thickness (CIMT) measurements were obtained and compared in individuals with and without trauma. We also examined whether increased CIMT was independently associated with trauma after adjustment for other risk factors. Results: From multiple logistic regression, only elevated triglycerides (> 1.7 mmol/l) were associated with a 5.2 greater odds of having experienced trauma. The mean CIMT of subjects with trauma was greater than that of non-trauma-exposed subjects (0.53 mm vs 0.50 mm, p = 0.07). Moreover, trauma was independently associated with higher CIMT (difference = 0.036 mm, p = 0.024) after adjustment for CVD risk factors. Conclusions: We show that most CVD risk factors are associated with post-war trauma in young adults, and, if present, such trauma is associated with higher triglycerides and higher levels of CIMT in multivariable analysis.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/20008198.2019.1601988
dc.identifier.urihttps://vaseljena.ues.rs.ba/handle/123456789/458
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.sourceEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology
dc.subjectCardiovascular disease; risk factors; trauma; children; intimal medial thickness
dc.titlePost-trauma cardiovascular risk factors and subclinical atherosclerosis in young adults following the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina
dc.typeArticle
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