Greater than normal prevalence of seropositivity for Helicobacter pylori among patients who have suffered myocardial infarction

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 523-526

  Kahan, Thomas ^a   Lundman, Pia ^a   Olsson, Gunnar ^b,c   Wendt, Mårten ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; H. pylori; Infection; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SMOKING;

EID: 0033818932     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200010000-00002     Document Type: Article

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