Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism, infectious burden, and coronary artery disease [3]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1536-1537

  Auer, Johann ^a   Berent, Robert ^a   Weber, Thomas ^a   Eber, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ATHEROGENESIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFECTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST PROTEIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-1; SIALOGLYCOPROTEINS;

EID: 0036604457     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340531     Document Type: Letter

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