American Heart Association volunteer expert, Roxana Mehran, M.D., FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC, is Mount Sinai professor in Cardiovascular Clinical Research and Outcomes, Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.

Offering perspective on AHA Scientific Sessions 2020 Presentation 314 
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"Women, the female veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, had a much higher rate of having or developing ischemic heart disease over the period of time. That included heart attacks and, you know, atherosclerotic heart disease, which then is a very important, we know it's the number one cause of death in men and women. And so if you can think about that and seeing that that has such an important stress on them, it's really, really, really important to note."