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The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans has been a controversial medical and political issue. A new analysis provides better data and more robust conclusions.
The author is in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: rjm{at} wjh.harvard.edu
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