Schizophrenia and coagulation

This aricle from 2016 reports the assosciation between a hypercoagulable state and schizophrenia. It describes changes in protein C as well as t-pa and reviews how their activity influences pathogenesis and comorbidity. The authors analyze how activity of tPA and protein S is influenced by biochemical abnormalities found in schizophrenia. Future directions for research, such…

Psychological distress is associated with increased mortality from several major causes in a dose-response pattern, even at low levels of distress

This study, which was published in the BMJ in 2012, set out to quantify the link between lower, subclinically symptomatic, levels of psychological distress and cause-mortality in a large scale, population based study. The study comprised 68,222 people from general population samples of adults aged 35 years and over, free of cardiovascular disease and cancer,…