Elevated platelet factor 4 and β-thromboglobulin plasma levels in depressed patients with ischemic heart disease

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 290-295

  Laghrissi Thode, Fouzia ^a,b   Wagner, William R ^a   Pollock, Bruce G ^a   Johnson, Peter C ^a   Finkel, Mitchell S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

thromboglobulin; depression; ischemic heart disease; platelet factor 4

Indexed keywords

BETA THROMBOGLOBULIN; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE;

ADULT; BETA-THROMBOGLOBULIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PLATELET FACTOR 4; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0030847087     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00345-9     Document Type: Article

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