Volume 14, Issue 1 (5-2000)
Med J Islam Repub Iran 2000 |
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From the Department of Virology and Cardiology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, I.R. Iran.
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To evaluate the correlation of cytomegalovirus (CMV) and coronary artery
disease (CAD), one-hundred patients with CAD and the same number of healthy
individuals as a control group were randomly selected and studied for anti-CMV
using ELISA method. Ninety percent of patients and 77 percent of the control
group were anti-CMV positive and statistical analysis showed a significant
correlation between these groups (p<0.05). Certain risk factors such as
hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, smoking, type A personality and familial
history were also studied. The distribution of these factors in the patient group
were higher than those of the control group and a significant correlation was
observed between these groups, but no dependency was observed between anti CMV
and the above parameters in the patient group. Results of this study
showed a meaningful correlation between the anti-CMV level and coronary
artery disease.
Keywords: Atherosclerosis, Anti-cytomegalovirus antibody.
Type of Study: Original Research |
Subject:
Cardiology
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