Effects of gender and dementia severity on Alzheimer's disease caregivers' sleep and biomarkers of coagulation and inflammation

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 605-610

  Mills, Paul J ^a   Ancoli Israel, Sonia ^a,b   Känel, Roland von ^a,c   Mausbach, Brent T ^a   Aschbacher, Kirstin ^a   Patterson, Thomas L ^a,b   Ziegler, Michael G ^a   Dimsdale, Joel E ^a   Grant, Igor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Caregiving; Coagulation; D dimer; Gender; IL 6; Inflammation; Sleep

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; D DIMER; INTERLEUKIN 6;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RATING SCALE; ROLE OVERLOAD SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPOUSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD COAGULATION; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SPOUSES; THROMBOPHILIA;

EID: 68649119079     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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