Gender differences and age-specific associations between body mass index and other cardiovascular risk factors in CMV infected and uninfected people

Immunology Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 316-322

  Terrazzini, Nadia ^a,b   Bajwa, Martha ^a   Thomas, David ^a   Smith, Helen ^b   Kern, Florian ^a  

^a BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cardiovascular risk factors; CMV; Immunology; Infection; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHIL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84914172161     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: 18790542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2014.09.011     Document Type: Article

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