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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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Involvement of Inflammation and Its Resolution in Disease and Therapeutics

TL;DR: It is concluded that resolution pharmacology and advanced therapies are promising tools to restore the inflammation homeostasis.
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Preventing Heart Failure in Inflammatory and Immune Disorders.

TL;DR: It is proposed how a strategy for heart failure prevention, such as the model tested in the Screening To Prevent Heart Failure (STOP-HF) trial, may be adapted to chronic inflammatory disease.
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Fine-tuning inflammation-resolution programs: focus on atherosclerosis.

TL;DR: Recent work that supports the concept of dysregulated inflammation-resolution in atherosclerosis is highlighted with a particular focus on mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities associated with SPM receptors and lipid mediator imbalances.
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Role of herpesviruses in coronary artery disease

TL;DR: The association between HSV infection and atherosclerosis is not related to its seroprevalence, and the association in developing countries and developed countries is no significant association.
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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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