Medicina clinica
The most recent articles from:
September 2020
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Letter Case Reports
Diffuse axonal injury associated with COVID-19 infection.
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Letter Case Reports
Twitter and the pursuit of global health-care during COVID-19 pandemic.
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The recognition of atherogenesis as an active process rather than a passive cholesterol storage disease has underlined key inflammatory mechanisms. Hence, innate and adaptive immune responses play an important role in the onset and progression of atherosclerosis. ⋯ Therefore, we review first the pathophysiological contribution of inflammation to atherosclerosis and the effect of lipid-lowering drugs on inflammatory biomarkers. Next, we address the effect of classic anti-inflammatory drugs, pharmacological therapies targeting specific inflammatory mediators and vaccines in cardiovascular prevention.