Published in Health Insurance Week, December 24th, 2006
Study 1: A new study, "Sleep disturbance, norepinephrine, and D-dimer are all related in elderly caregivers of people with Alzheimer disease," is now available. "Caregiving for a relative with Alzheimer disease has been associated with sympathoadrenal medullary arousal and morbidity and mortality. In this study, we examined if sleep disturbance of elderly caregivers was associated with physiologic markers of cardiovascular risk, including plasma norepinephrine, epinephrine, and the hemostasis marker D-dimer. Cross-sectional," researchers in the United States report.
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