Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Cardiovascular risk factors and acute-phase response in idiopathic ascending aortitis: a case control study. | Available online http content 11 1 R29 Research article Cardiovascular risk factors and acute-phase response in idiopathic ascending aortitis a case control study Vaidehi R Chowdhary1 Cynthia S Crowson2 Kimberly P Liang3 Clement J Michet Jr1 Dylan V Miller4 Kenneth J Warrington1 and Eric L Matteson1 Division of Rheumatology Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 200 1st Street SW Rochester MN 55905 USA 2Division of Biostatistics Department of Health Sciences Research Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 200 1st Street SW Rochester MN 55905 USA 3Department of Medicine and Division of Rheumatology University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA 4Division of Anatomic Pathology Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 200 1 st Street SW Rochester MN 55905 USA Corresponding author Vaidehi R Chowdhary Received 18 Nov 2008 Revisions requested 14 Jan 2009 Revisions received 10 Feb 2009 Accepted 27 Feb 2009 Published 27 Feb 2009 Arthritis Research Therapy 2009 11 R29 doi ar2633 This article is online at http content 11 1 R29 2009 Chowdhary et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Idiopathic aortitis is a rare condition characterized by giant cell or lymphoplasmacytic inflammation of the aorta. The purpose of this study was to describe risk factors for the development of idiopathic aortitis. Methods We conducted a case control study of 50 patients who were age-matched with two control subjects with noninflammatory ascending aortic aneurysms. We examined whether the prevalences of gender hypertension hyperlipidemia diabetes
