A 79-year-old female resident of an assisted living facility receives care from a community nurse on a regular basis for treatment of a chronic venous leg ulcer. Which of the following factors would the nurse be most justified in ruling out as a contributing factor to the client's impaired wound healing?
A) A lower skin collagen content than in younger adults
B) Decreased fibroblast synthesis
C) Slow reepithelialization
D) Decreased antibody levels
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