Low HDL Cholesterol, Smoking and IL-13 R130Q Polymorphism are Associated with Myocardial Infarction in Greek Cypriot Males. A Pilot Study

doi:10.2174/1874192400802010052

Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 52–59.

Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010052.

PMCID: PMC2570578

Low HDL Cholesterol, Smoking and IL-13 R130Q Polymorphism are Associated with Myocardial Infarction in Greek Cypriot Males. A Pilot Study

Stavroulla Xenophontos,¹ Marilena Hadjivassiliou,¹ Alexandros Karagrigoriou,² Nafsika Demetriou,¹ George Miltiadous,³ Ioannis Marcou,⁴ Moses Elisaf,³ Dimitri P Mikhailidis,⁵ and Marios A Cariolou^*¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Genetics & The Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

²Mathematics and Statistics Department, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

³Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus

⁵Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital Campus, University College London, Pond Street, London, NW3 2 QG, UK

^*Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Cardiovascular Genetics & The Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, 6 Airport Avenue, 1683 Nicosia, Cyprus; Tel: 0035722392651; Fax: 0035722392638; E-mail: cariolou/at/cing.ac.cy

Received June 24, 2008; Revised July 2, 2008; Accepted July 4, 2008.

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