Inflammation as the cause of coronary heart disease

Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2010, Pages 142-143

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Reflection and Reaction

Inflammation as the cause of coronary heart disease

Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja^a, 

^a Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS Brazil

Available online 22 February 2010. 

The time might have arrived to seriously consider substituting inflammation for degeneration as the main idea behind atherogenesis.11 The 2009 H1N1 pandemic is giving us the opportunity of widely reassess the role of infection, and particularly of influenza, on the cause of coronary heart disease.

The Review by Warren-Gash and colleagues is proof that change is already on its way. Now it is up to usto decide whether we are ready to advance, and how far.