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Multiple sclerosis and susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases: Implications of ethnicity-related interleukin-17A gene polymorphism?
Medical hypotheses - 1 Sept 2015
Mormile Raffaella
Abstract excerpt
There are conflicting findings on whether patients with MS are at more or less risk of vascular comorbidities as compared to the general population. The worldwide incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the MS patients has been reported to vary substantially by region. Inflammation and demyelination in MS seem to be due to an autoimmune process mediated by IL17 secreting Th17 cells. Genotypic...
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