Association of Helicobacter pylori infection with coronary heart disease

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# Study shows association between H pylori infection and hypertension {#article-title-2} EDITOR,—P Patel and colleagues report an association between Helicobacter pylori and Chlamydia pneumoniae infections and coronary heart disease and plasma fibrinogen concentrations but did not find an association between H pylori infection and a history of hypertension.1 We have studied the relation between H pylori infection and cardiovascular risk factors in hypertensive patients. We studied 124 hypertensive patients (61 men, mean age 53.2 (SD 14.7) years), of whom 19 had malignant phase hypertension, and 38 healthy controls (21 men, mean age 52.6 (14.6) years) to see whether …