Atherosclerosis in Patients With Autoimmune Disorders
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Atherosclerosis in patients with autoimmune disorders.
Recent findings indicate that presence of activated immune competent cells and inflammation are typical of atherosclerosis, the main cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The risk of CVD is very high in a prototypic autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and is also raised in other autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Autoimmunity-related CVD and atherosclerosis a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1079-5642,1524-4636
DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.0000174800.78362.ec