Greater Traumatic Stress Linked with Elevated Inflammation in Heart Patients
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Greater lifetime exposure to the stress of traumatic events was linked to higher levels of inflammation in a study of almost 1,000 patients with cardiovascular disease led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
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