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 
copyright American Heart Association 2020


"What these investigators did and found, which was profound, I believe, is that they found that in the younger women there was higher prevalence and much prominence evaluation for posttraumatic stress disorder. It was more common in the younger people, and very important amongst blacks, and Hispanics, and non-whites. And this to me was also incredibly important, women are underrepresented and so are Hispanics and blacks. So underrepresented minorities are women, to the group we hardly ever study or have really longed for data, this group focused on, and so I find this study incredibly important."