What Causes Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia: Genetic or Immune-Related Factors, or a Combination?

Immune-related and inflammatory conditions and risk of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma or Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia.

BACKGROUND Chronic immune stimulation appears to be associated with lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL)-Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM); however, available information is sparse. We conducted, to our knowledge, the most comprehensive study to date to evaluate associations between a personal or family history of many immune-related and/or inflammatory disorders and the subsequent risk of LPL-WM....

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Commentary: risk factors or social causes?

In many industrialized countries, there has been a welcome decline in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality. In England and Wales, this has progressed for two decades.1 Many would like to take the credit for this decline, but the reasons for it are not entirely clear. Contributors to the decline are likely to include reductions in smoking, dietary change—but not the increase in obesity—and imp...

High density Lipoprotein; What to Measure: Quality or Quantity?

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...