Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2895410 | Atherosclerosis | 2006 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The level of obesity is essential to the interpretation of the relationship between CRP and severity of CAD. The production of inflammatory mediators with increasing levels of obesity becomes the dominant determinant of plasma CRP levels and masks the vascular contribution due to CAD.
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Authors
Doron Aronson, Alexander Goldberg, Ariel Roguin, Sirouch Petcherski, Drora Rimer, Luis Gruberg, Ophir Avizohar, Yishai Levy, Walter Markiewicz, Rafael Beyar,