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Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis.
OBJECTIVE To review the literature for evidence that chronic infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae is associated with atherosclerosis and acute coronary syndromes. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and Institute of Science and Information bibliographic databases were searched at the end of September 1998. Indexing terms used were chlamydi*, heart, coronary, and atherosclerosis. Serological and pathological ...
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The concept that atherosclerosis was induced by environmental factors such as smoking and high fat intake was perturbated when inflammation was found to be prominent in atherosclerotic lesions. Chlamydophila pneumoniae but also other microbes inducing chronic endothelial infections have been implicated, particularly cytomegalovirus (CMV) and the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. Large sero-...
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Atherosclerosis: Methodological Considerations To the Editor: In contrast to several previously published studies,1–3 the one by Caligiuri et al4 failed to observe an accelerating effect of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection on atherosclerotic lesion development in apolipoprotein E–deficient mice. There are several critical differences in experimental design that likely account for these contrastin...
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[1] van Hout BA, Simoons ML. Cost-effectiveness of HMG coenzyme reductase inhibitors. Whom to treat? Eur Heart J 2001; 22: 751–61. [2] Houterman S, Boshuizen HC, Verschuren VMM et al. Predicting cardiovascular risk in the elderly in different European countries. Eur Heart J 2002; 23: 294–300, doi:10.1053/euhj.2001.2898. [3] Clarke R, Lewington S, Youngman L, Sherliker P, Peto R, Collins R. Unde...
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pneumoniae Infection? To the Editor: The figure that appears in the article by Libby et al,1 as well as on the cover of the same edition, shows atherosclerosis as a lipid infiltrative type of lesion with primary attachment and infiltration of monocyte/macrophage foam cells.1 Pathological studies, however, show additional features, such as the foam cell component consisting of a combination of m...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000040403.57597.48