Chlamydia pneumoniae
More Evidence Links Infectious Disease with Atherosclerosis
Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 19th, 2000
Results of the study were published in Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift.
The study was designed to examine the effect of chlamydial stress (heat shock) protein 60 (HSP 60) on atheroma tissue from 42 patients (27 clinically acute coronary syndrome and 15 acute angina).
G. Bauriedel, a leader of the study, reported, "An immune reaction to chlamydial HSP 60 was demonstrated in 27 of 42 atheromas (64%)." In addition, none of the non-atherosclerotic venous tissues that were tested for an...
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