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Blood test could soon provide PTSD diagnosis 09/19/08. The Veterans Health Administration estimates it will treat nearly six million patients this year, including more than 260,000 veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The most common mental health problem suffered by those troops is post-traumatic stress disorder, known as PTSD. There is aggressive research underway at the San Francisco Veteran's Medical Center, where scientists from UCSF are looking for changes in the blood and the brain to find treatments for victims of PTSD. abc7news.com