Relation between local temperature and C-reactive protein levels in patients with coronary artery disease: Effects of atorvastatin treatment

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 396-400

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Vavuranakis, Manolis ^a   Tsioufis, Costas ^a   Stefanadi, Elli ^a   Boudoulas, Harisios ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Inflammation; Statins

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY;

AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRROLES; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34248213073     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2006.05.038     Document Type: Article

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