Scherrer JF, Salas J, Norman SB, et al. - Given the association of PTSD with increased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), researchers examined the impact of clinically meaningful PTSD symptom reduction (≥ 20-point decrease on the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist score) on the risk of T2D. Using Veterans Health Affairs medical records, they analyzed data from 1,598 patients in this cohort study. They noted a 49% lower risk of incident T2D among those with clinically meaningful PTSD improvement vs those with less than clinically meaningful or no improvement. They concluded that long-term chronic health conditions linked to PTSD may be less likely to occur among patients who experience clinically meaningful symptom reduction through treatment or spontaneous improvement.