Does depression strongly influence postconcussion symptom reporting following mild traumatic brain injury?
Patients who experience MTBIs and who have a postinjury recovery course complicated by significant depression report more postconcussion symptoms, and more severe symptoms, than (a) outpatients with depression, and (b) patients with MTBIs who do not have significant symptoms of depression.
In the present study, low serum apoprotein A-I, a major protein component of HDL, was found to be related to increased carotid intima-media thickness. This relationship was stronger in females than in males, which suggests possible gender differences in the relationship between apoprotein A-1 and early atherosclerotic lesions in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus.