Altered Left Ventricular Myocardial Deformation in Young Women With Borderline Personality Disorder: An Echocardiographic Study

Conclusions Somatically healthy women with BPD display subtle signs of increased GLS, which is associated with allostatic load as an indicator of the “wear-and-tear” of the body. The association between childhood trauma with GLS was of similar strength but did not reach the threshold for statistical significance. This finding may support the need for primary prevention of somatic consequences of maladaptive stress responsivity in psychiatric patients.
Source: Psychosomatic Medicine - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research