Two large, high-quality, and convincingly negative clinicaltrials for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease,1,2published in this issue of the Journal, raise questions as towhether we are at the end of the road or should move on to newbeginnings as we explore the hypothesis that infection playsa role in atherosclerosis. Evidence that vascular inflammationis an important mechanism involved in all stages of atherogenesiscontinues to accumulate. Such evidence has legitimately raisedthe question of whether infection is one of the inflammatorystimuli that operate in the pathophysiology of atherothrombosis,either locally, within vascular tissue, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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