Altered blood coagulation in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 598-604

  Von Känel, Roland ^a,b   Hepp, Urs ^c   Buddeberg, Claus ^c   Keel, Marius ^c   Mica, Ladislav ^c   Aschbacher, Kirstin ^d   Schnyder, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Blood coagulation; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 12; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MOOD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AROUSAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BLOOD COAGULATION FACTORS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EXERCISE; FACTOR VII; FACTOR VIII; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33748070517     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000221229.43272.9d     Document Type: Article

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