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8032121

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-8-16
pubmed:abstractText
Following previous observations that the adhesive state of white blood cells in the peripheral blood increases during stress, we examined 645 volunteers in various conditions of anticipatory anxiety. The volunteer subjects included 465 controls in whom stress was related solely to impending venipuncture, 149 persons under moderate stress (students before delivering a graded lecture, patients before dental treatment, etc), as well as 31 individuals under major stress (eg, before induction of anesthesia in the operating room). The respective values of aggregated leukocytes in the peripheral blood were 5.2 +/- 3.8, 6 +/- 4.2, and 19.3 +/- 9.3% of aggregated cells, with a significant difference (p < .0001) between the third and the other two groups. In both discriminant analysis and multiple regression, the leukocyte adhesiveness/aggregation test (LAAT) was shown to be superior to the white blood cell count for the detection of major stress. The LAAT had a sensitivity of 0.8, compared with only 0.35 for leukocyte count for that purpose. We concluded that the LAAT could be a powerful tool for the diagnosis of major acute mental stress and for discrimination between conditions causing major stress and those conditions that are less stressful.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0896-4289
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
175-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Differentiation between major and milder acute mental stress by means of the leukocyte adhesiveness/aggregation test.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine D, Basil and Gerald Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't