[Because serum levels of IL-6 and CRP are independent risk factors for stroke and myocardial infarction (MI), we investigated whether Cpn burden in carotid plaques might provide a link between plaque IL-6 expression and elevated serum levels of IL-6 and CRP.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE