HIGH LEVELS OF FIBRINOGEN, BUT NOT FIBRINOGEN GENETIC VARIANTS PREDICT CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN SUBJECTS WITH HYPERTENSION AND DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE 2

Nikolaos Papageorgiou,Alexandros Briasoulis,George Hatzis,Maria Kozanitou,Marietta Charakida,Antigoni Miliou,Emmanouel Androulakis,Konstantinos Tsioufis,Gerasimos Siasos,Konstantinos Toutouzas,Spyridon Papaioannou,George Latsios,Zoi Pallantza,Christodoulos Stefanadis,Dimitris Tousoulis

HIGH LEVELS OF FIBRINOGEN, BUT NOT FIBRINOGEN GENETIC VARIANTS PREDICT CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN SUBJECTS WITH HYPERTENSION AND DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE 2

2015

Nikolaos Papageorgiou
Alexandros Briasoulis
George Hatzis
Maria Kozanitou
Marietta Charakida
Antigoni Miliou
Emmanouel Androulakis
Konstantinos Tsioufis
Gerasimos Siasos
Konstantinos Toutouzas
Spyridon Papaioannou
George Latsios
Zoi Pallantza
Christodoulos Stefanadis
Dimitris Tousoulis

It is well established that hypertension (HTN) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are strongly associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). In addition, controversial data exist related to the role of fibrinogen genetic variants in atherosclerosis-CAD. Therefore, we examined the effects of the rs180070

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Coronary artery disease
Internal medicine
Fibrinogen
Cardiology
Diabetes mellitus
Medicine
genetic variants

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