Song H, et al. - In this population based, sibling-controlled cohort study, researchers evaluated if stress related disorders were connected to ensuing risk of cardiovascular disease. They included 136,637 patients in the Swedish National Patient Register with stress related disorders (including post-traumatic stress disorder, acute stress reaction, adjustment disorder, and other stress reactions) between 1987 to 2013, 171,314 unaffected full siblings of these patients, and 1,366,370 matched people from the general population. In the Swedish population, clinically confirmed stress related disorders had a clear connection with a higher risk of ensuing cardiovascular disease, especially in the months following diagnosis of a stress related disorder. Findings revealed that stress related disorders were strongly linked to multiple types of cardiovascular disease, regardless of familial background, somatic/psychiatric diseases history, and psychiatric comorbidity and was equally seen in men and women.