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Alfredo Focà
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Alfredo Focà is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lipoprotein(a) & Homocysteine. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 219 citations.
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Inflammation is associated with carotid atherosclerosis in dialysis patients
Carmine Zoccali,Francesco A. Benedetto,Francesca Mallamaci,Giovanni Tripepi,Isabella Fermo,Alfredo Focà,Rita Paroni,Lorenzo Malatino +7 more
TL;DR: In patients on chronic dialysis treatment CRP is independently associated to carotid atherosclerosis and appears at least in part to be explained by IgG anti-Chlamydia pneumoniae antibodies level, which lends support to the hypothesis that inflammation plays a role in the pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis in these patients.