Adderall, the Atypicals, and Weight Gain

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Body Mass Index in Military Veterans: The Richmond Experience

“…Further, we were also interested in studying the relationship between obesity in PTSD and demographics, psychiatric and medical comorbidity, and disability measurements. In December 2004, we conducted a PubMed search using the keywords ''PTSD'' and ''obesity'' and found 17 articles (Comings & Blum, 2000;David, Woodward, Esquenazi, & Mellman, 2004;Dew et al, 1999;Dobie et al, 2004;Farley, Wade, & Birchmore, 2003;Hagan et al, 1999;Horrigan, Barnhill, & Kohli, 2001;Kadojic, Demarin, Kadojic, Mihaljevic, & Barac, 1999;Lemieux & Coe 1995;Leung, Fagan, Cho, Lim, & Robson, 1994;McEwen, 2000McEwen, , 2003Noble, 2000;Roberts, 1996;Schatzberg, 2000;Tobin, Molteni, & Elin, 1995;VanItallie, 2002). None of these papers looked directly at the potential relationship between PTSD and obesity.…”