Salivary lysozyme and prevalent coronary heart disease: Possible effects of oral health on endothelial dysfunction [3]

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 433-434

  Janket, Sok Ja ^a   Meurman, Jukka H ^b   Nuutinen, Pekka ^c   Qvarnström, Markku ^b   Nunn, Martha E ^a   Baird, Alison E ^d   Van Dyke, Thomas E ^a   Jones, Judith A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LYSOZYME; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENTAL CARIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDENTULOUSNESS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; GINGIVA DISEASE; GINGIVITIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; META ANALYSIS; MOUTH INFECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SALIVA LEVEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; METABOLISM; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; SALIVA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MURAMIDASE; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA;

EID: 33644858744     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000198249.67996.e0     Document Type: Letter

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