Moderate alcohol consumption and sensitive markers of inflammation. An atheroprotective link?;Moderater Alkoholkonsum und Plasmakonzentration sensitiver Entzündungsmarker: Hinweise auf einen atheroprotektiven Zusammenhang

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 128, Issue 43, 2003, Pages 2237-2241

  Hoffmeister, A ^a   Imhof, A ^a   Rothenbacher, D ^a   Khuseyinova, N ^a   Brenner, H ^b   Koenig, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPROTEIN; SERUM AMYLOID A;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BEER; BLOOD DONOR; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART PROTECTION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLASMA VISCOSITY; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN;

EID: 0242270007     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-43101     Document Type: Article

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