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,…

Older patients on dialysis have a high prevalance of depression and cognitive impairment

The purpose of this study published 2005 in Aging and Mental Health was to evaluate levels of cognitive impairment, depressive mood and self-reported quality of life in older dialysis patients (>70 years). A total of 51 outpatients receiving dialysis were assessed by psychologists, using a depression scale (MADRS), two cognitive tests (MMSE and BEC 96),…