Possible role of chronic infection with chlamydia pneumoniae in Japanese patients with acute myocardial infarction

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 819-824

  Kosaka, C ^a   Hara, K ^a   Komiyama, Y ^a   Takahashi, H ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Chlamydia pneumoniae; Coronary heart disease; Effort angina pectoris; ELISA; IgA; IgG; Infarction; Infection; Inflammation; Vasospastic angina

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; SEROLOGY;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SMOKING;

EID: 0033758995     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.64.819     Document Type: Article

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