Association of common chronic infections with coronary artery disease in patients without any conventional risk factors

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-136

  Goyal, Puneet ^a,b   Kale, Shailaja C ^a   Chaudhry, Rama ^a   Chauhan, Sandeep ^a   Shah, Naseem ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Infections; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PERIODONTAL EXAMINATION; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PERIODONTAL POCKET;

EID: 34147094329     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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