Editorial Inflammatory and coagulative markers of atherosclerosis

• Main Author: Edoardo Casiglia
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Tromsø
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.539.9619; http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/3/271.full.pdf

This editorial refers to ‘Albuminuria as risk factor for initiation and progression of carotid atherosclerosis in non-diabetic persons: the Tromsø Study’ † by L. Jørgensen et al., on page 363 and ‘Inflammatory, haemostatic, and rheological markers for incident peripheral arterial disease: Edinburgh Artery Study’ ‡ by I. Tzoulaki et al., on page 354 Many markers associated with atherosclerosis have been identified in the last 50 years. Some of them act as factors, both mathematically (factors risk multipliers) and biologically (factors from the latin facient, producing), and others are mere indicators. Among the novel markers (Table 1), many are strictly connected with inflammation or coagulation. Some studies on these markers have been considered with suspect, because they were conducted on