in a perspective blind study of 147 survivors of myocardial infarction , the 13 patients who had definite recurrent infarction during 38.1 +/- 7.2 months ( minimum , 34 months ) of follow-up had higher plasma fibrinogen levels ( 334.4 +/- 13.1 mg/dl vs 291.5 +/- 4.7 mg/dl ; p = 0.0055 ) , and higher maximum rate of fibrin growth ( generation of turbidity ) when measuring prothrombin time ( pt vmax , 7.76 +/- 0.31 units vs 6.48 +/- 0.11 units ; p = 0.0003 ) , thrombin time ( tt vmax , 5.24 +/- 0.32 units vs 4.22 +/- 0.11 units ; p = 0.0002 ) , and activated partial thromboplastin time ( aptt vmax , 7.47 +/- 0.29 units vs 6.20 +/- 0.10 units ; p = 0.0001 ) than patients who did not have reinfarction .
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plasma
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