Browsing by Subject "Blood coagulation"

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Clotting matters : the ebb and flow of blood / Marlien Pieters

Pieters, Marlien (Potchefstroom : North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014)
Leukocyte telomere length and hemostatic factors in a South African cohort: the SABPA study

Von Känel, R.; Malan, N.T.; Hamer, M.; Van der Westhuizen, F.H.; Malan, L. (Wiley, 2014)

Background Incident atherothrombotic disease is predicted by leukocyte telomere length, a marker of biological age, and hemostatic factor levels, indicating a hypercoagulable state. We hypothesized that shorter telomeres ...
Three-year changes of prothrombotic factors in Africans with a high clinical suspicion of obstructive sleep apnea

Von Känel, Roland; Malan, Nico T.; Hamer, Mark; Lambert, Gavin W.; Schlaich, Markus; Reimann, Manja; Malan, Leoné (Schattauer Publishers, 2016)

A hypercoagulable state might be one important mechanism linking obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with incident myocardial infarction and stroke. However, previous studies on prothrombotic factors in OSA are not uniform and ...