Is vasculitis a significant component of atherosclerosis?
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Rheumatology
- Vol. 11 (1) , 3-10
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00002281-199901000-00002
Abstract
Although atherosclerosis was linked to infections many decades ago, only recently there has been a renewed interest to study this association further. These research endeavors have provided a substantial amount of knowledge concerning the mechanisms that may link inflammation, immunity, and infections to the molecular and cellular events in the arterial wall leading to atherosclerotic lesions.Keywords
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