Blood pressure may open door to personalized medicine for PTSD
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 13:01
in Health & Medicine
Treatment with the drug prazosin effectively reduces symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for many people, but about one third of patients don't respond to the treatment at all. Attempts to understand why people respond differently have fallen short. Now, a new study reports that soldiers with higher blood pressure before beginning prazosin treatment see better results from the medication.