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Rationale and design of the Cardiovascular Inflammation Reduction Trial: a test of the inflammatory hypothesis of atherothrombosis.

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If low-dose methotrexate reduces cardiovascular events, CIRT would provide a novel therapeutic approach for the secondary prevention of heart attack, stroke, and cardiovascular death.
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This article is published in American Heart Journal.The article was published on 2013-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 347 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Myocardial infarction & Rheumatoid arthritis.

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Antiinflammatory Therapy in Clinical Care: The CANTOS Trial and Beyond

TL;DR: The CANTOS trial results mark the first phase 3 trial results validating inflammation as a viable target for preventing cardiovascular disease and highlight previous trial data showing its modulation with statins and other agents.
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Interleukin-6 in atherosclerosis: atherogenic or atheroprotective?

TL;DR: Interleukin-6, a unique pleiotropic cytokine exhibiting both pro- and anti-inflammatory properties depending on the target cell type, has been evaluated as an atheroprotective agent, but studies are inconclusive.
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Targeting inflammatory pathways for the treatment of cardiovascular disease

TL;DR: The core question raised in the present analysis does not relate to which inflammatory biomarker is best suited for clinical practice, but rather to whether the incremental utility of C-reactive protein for predicting vascular risk was found to be fully comparable to that of total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
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Exploiting the Pleiotropic Antioxidant Effects of Established Drugs in Cardiovascular Disease

TL;DR: Modulation of the inflammatory response is a new and promising approach in the therapy of cardiovascular disease and classical anti-inflammatory therapeutic compounds, but also established drugs with pleiotropic immunomodulatory abilities, demonstrated protective effects in various models of cardiovascular Disease.
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The Interplay of Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Immunity in Atherosclerosis.

TL;DR: The novel acquisitions in pathophysiology of atherosclerosis reinforce the tight link between lipids, inflammation, and immune response, and support the benefit of targeting LDL-C as well as inflammation to decrease the CVD burden.
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Definition of Metabolic Syndrome Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Heart Association Conference on Scientific Issues Related to Definition

TL;DR: Although ATP III identified CVD as the primary clinical outcome of the metabolic syndrome, most people with this syndrome have insulin resistance, which confers increased risk for type 2 diabetes, when diabetes becomes clinically apparent, CVD risk rises sharply.
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C-Reactive Protein and Other Markers of Inflammation in the Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease in Women

TL;DR: The addition of the measurement of C-reactive protein to screening based on lipid levels may provide an improved method of identifying persons at risk for cardiovascular events.
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Inflammation, Aspirin, and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Apparently Healthy Men

TL;DR: The reduction associated with the use of aspirin in the risk of a first myocardial infarction appears to be directly related to the level of C-reactive protein, raising the possibility that antiinflammatory agents may have clinical benefits in preventing cardiovascular disease.
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