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Association of Negative Life Event Stress With Coagulation Activity in Elderly Alzheimer Caregivers

Roland von Känel, MD, Joel E. Dimsdale, MD, Thomas L. Patterson, PhD and Igor Grant, MD

From the Department of Psychiatry (R.v.W., J.E.D., T.L.P., I.G.), University of California, San Diego; and the San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (T.L.P., I.G.), La Jolla, California.



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  		Fig. 1. Plasma D-dimer levels showed a direct association with number of negative life events (r = 0.35, p = .010). Caregivers with >=4 negative life events had significantly higher D-dimer than those with <4 life events (p = .006).

 




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