Abstract 2904: Interleukin-18, the Metabolic Syndrome, and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: Results from the Dallas Heart Study

Andreas Zirlik,Shuaib Abdullah,Norbert Gerdes,Lindsey MacFarlane,Uwe Schönbeck,Darren MacGuire,Amit Khera,Gloria Lena Vega,Scott M. Grundy,Peter Libby,James A. de Lemos

Abstract 2904: Interleukin-18, the Metabolic Syndrome, and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: Results from the Dallas Heart Study

2006

Andreas Zirlik
Shuaib Abdullah
Norbert Gerdes
Lindsey MacFarlane
Uwe Schönbeck
Darren MacGuire
Amit Khera
Gloria Lena Vega
Scott M. Grundy
Peter Libby
James A. de Lemos

Background: Pro-inflammatory interleukin (IL)-18 promotes atherogenesis in animals and predicts cardiovascular risk in humans. We investigated whether IL-18 plasma levels associate with the metabol...

Keywords:

Interleukin 18
Cardiology
Internal medicine
Subclinical infection
Diabetes mellitus
Metabolic syndrome
Medicine
subclinical atherosclerosis

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