A potential impact of Helicobacter pylori infection on both obstructive sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation-related stroke

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue , 2017, Pages 256-

  Kountouras, Constantinos ^a   Polyzos, Stergios A ^a   Stergiopoulos, Christos ^a   Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Tzivras, Dimitri ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Vardaka, Elisabeth ^a   Gavalas, Emmanuel ^a   Daskalopoulou Vlachogianni, Euthemia ^a   Tzivras, Ioanna ^a   Vlachaki, Efthymia ^a   Deretzi, Georgia ^a   Giartza Taxidou, Evaggelia ^a   Kountouras, Jannis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LETTER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; STROKE;

EID: 85018554298     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.03.010     Document Type: Letter

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