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Netherlands Journal of Medicine, 65, 6, (2007), pp. 203-207ISSN
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Internal Medicine
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Netherlands Journal of Medicine
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vol. 65
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iss. 6
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p. 203
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p. 207
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IGMD 5: Health aging / healthy living; N4i 1: Pathogenesis and modulation of inflammation; N4i 2: Invasive mycoses and compromised host; N4i 3: Poverty-related infectious diseases; NCEBP 13: Infectious diseases and international health; NCEBP 14: Cardiovascular diseases; NCMLS 1: Infection and autoimmunity; UMCN 2.2: Vascular medicine and diabetes; UMCN 4.1: Microbial pathogenesis and host defenseAbstract
BACKGROUND: Recently, the common Asp299Gly polymorphism of the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR-4) was found to be associated with a reduced incidence of acute myocardial infarction and carotid atherosclerosis. As TLR-4 signalling is causally involved in atherogenesis, the polymorphism was postulated to impart protection from atherosclerosis. To explore a potential atheroprotective effect, we studied the association between the Asp299Gly polymorphism and atherosclerosis in hypertensive patients undergoing angiography for suspected renovascular disease. METHODS: 140 hypertensive subjects underwent intraarterial digital subtraction angiography, during which the presence of atherosclerotic lesions was assessed at the level of the abdominal aorta and renal arteries. Extensiveness of disease was classified as follows: atherosclerosis confined to the abdominal aorta, unilateral renal artery stenosis or bilateral renal artery stenosis. Subsequently, genotyping for the +896 A>G (Asp299Gly) single nucleotide polymorphism was performed in all patients. In statistical analyses 17 patients were excluded because of incomplete data (n=3) or a diagnosis of fibromuscular disease (n=14). RESULTS: 21 patients were found heterozygous for the 299Gly allele, whereas none of the subjects were 299Gly homozygous (299Gly allele frequency 7.8%). The prevalence of the 299Gly allele in atherosclerotic patients was not different from the prevalence observed in subjects without atherosclerotic lesions (16.9 vs 15.5%, p=0.83). Moreover, 299Gly carriership was not associated with the extensiveness of (advanced) aortic atherosclerosis (p=0.64). CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that the Asp299Gly TLR-4 receptor polymorphism is not associated with the prevalence nor extensiveness of (advanced) aortic atherosclerosis.
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