Conditions: PTSD
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 26
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The study looked at relationship between escitalopram and heart rate variability and QT variability in veterans with PTSD.

Detailed description:
The investigators are studying if taking escitalopram will normalize heart rate variability and a decrease (or no effect implying a lack of serious cardiac side effects) including QT variability in veterans with PTSD.

Arms:
arm 1: Escitalopram 10-20 mg/day arm 2: Escitalopram 10-20 mg/day

Interventions: intervention 1: Escitalopram
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 10-20mg daily for 12 weeks

Protocol document: