Childhood hospitalisation with infection and cardiovascular disease in early-mid adulthood: a longitudinal population-based study.

Pathogen-specific and overall infection burden may contribute to atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD), but the effect of infection severity and timing is unknown. We investigated whether childhood infection-related hospitalisation (IRH, a marker of severity) was associated with subsequen...

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Main Authors: David P Burgner, Matthew N Cooper, Hannah C Moore, Fiona J Stanley, Peter L Thompson, Nicholas H de Klerk, Kim W Carter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4418819?pdf=render