Long-term interleukin-6 levels and subsequent risk of coronary heart disease: Two new prospective studies and a systematic review

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 0600-0610

  Danesh, John ^a   Kaptoge, Stephen ^a   Mann, Andrea G ^a   Sarwar, Nadeem ^a   Wood, Angela ^a   Angleman, Sara B ^a   Wensley, Frances ^a   Higgins, Julian P T ^b   Lennon, Lucy ^c   Eiriksdottir, Gudny ^d,e   Rumley, Ann ^f   Whincup, Peter H ^g   Lowe, Gordon D O ^f   Gudnason, Vilmundur ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^g ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MIDDLE AGED; REVIEW;

COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 43249118045     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050078     Document Type: Article

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