Periodontal disease and risk for myocardial infarction and cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular Reviews and Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 34-40

  Genco, Robert J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Faculty of Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENT; CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LIPID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; THROMBIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BIOFILM; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GINGIVITIS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MOUTH FLORA; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTITIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031936879     PISSN: 01973118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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