Combined effect of hemostatic gene polymorphisms and the risk of myocardial infarction in patients with advanced coronary atherosclerosis.

BACKGROUND: Relative little attention has been devoted until now to the combined effects of gene polymorphisms of the hemostatic pathway as risk factors for Myocardial Infarction (MI), the main thrombotic complication of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). The aim of this study was to evaluate the combin...

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Main Authors: Nicola Martinelli, Elisabetta Trabetti, Mirko Pinotti, Oliviero Olivieri, Marco Sandri, Simonetta Friso, Francesca Pizzolo, Claudia Bozzini, Pier Paolo Caruso, Ugo Cavallari, Suzanne Cheng, Pier Franco Pignatti, Francesco Bernardi, Roberto Corrocher, Domenico Girelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2211406?pdf=render