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Elevated Plasma C-reactive protein in chronically distressed subjects who carry the A allele of the TNF-alpha -308 G/A polymorphism.
Psychosomatic medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Jeanmonod Pascal, von Känel Roland, Maly Friedrich E, Fischer Joachim E
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OBJECTIVE: Sustained psychological stress may result in a state operationalized as "vital exhaustion." Exhaustion predicted coronary artery disease (CAD) events whereby increased inflammatory activity might mediate this link. Moreover, there is an emerging importance of gene-environmental interactions in CAD. We investigated the effect of exhaustion severity on plasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and...
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