RESEARCH ARTICLE

Novel Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis

The Open Biomarkers Journal 5 December 2008 RESEARCH ARTICLE DOI: 10.2174/1875318300801010036

Abstract

Epidemiologic studies demonstrated that the classical cardiovascular risk factors explain only a part of the increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Large scale studies have shown that novel cardiovascular risk factors, including increased plasma homocysteine, fibrinogen, C-reactive protein, uric acid levels, and increased white blood cells count as well as low adiponectin levels, might have a key role in the pathogenesis of the cardiovascular disease. This review examines recent literature data on the effect of novel risk factors on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in healthy subjects as well as in subjects at high cardiovascular risk. In addition, the pathogenetic mechanisms linking the effects of the novel risk factors with atherosclerosis are discussed.

Keywords: Cardiovascular disease, risk factors, novel, white blood cells, fibrinogen, uric acid, homocysteine, adiponectin, C-reactive protein.
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