Association of vital exhaustion and depressive symptoms with changes in fibrin D-dimer to acute psychosocial stress Kanel RV et al. - The findings suggest an attenuated immediate D-dimer stress response and delayed recovery of D-dimer levels post-stress with elevated vital exhaustion and depressive symptoms. In particular, the prolonged hypercoagulability after stress cessation might contribute to the atherothrombotic risk previously observed with vital exhaustion and depression, even at subclinical levels. [more...]
