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-  2018 

Inflammation and atherosclerosis: fulfilling Koch’s postulates

DOI: 10.1177/1753944717744740

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Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is the leading cause of mortality in the Western world. Atherogenesis is an inflammatory process originating from a nascent fatty streak lesion culminating in plaque rupture.1–4 Various biomediators of inflammation, including adhesion molecules, cytokines, chemokines, etc., are known to play a role in atherosclerosis in both animal models and humans. The prototypic marker of inflammation, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) for example, has previously been shown to independently predict cardiovascular events (CVE).1–

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