Cytokines Profile in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction | ||
| Journal of Al-Nahrain University - Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 161-167 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ahmed Abdul-Hassan Abbas Al-Hassan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A total of 30 acute myocardial infarction patients and 30 age and sex-matched healthy controls were enrolled in this study. Patients group showed significant increase in serum levels of IL-1α, IL-2 and IL-6 as compared with controls (p<0.01 and P<0.05), and no statistically significant changes were found in serum levels of IL-4 and IL-10 between patients and controls. On the other hand there was positive linear correlation between IL-1α and IL-6 (r=0.787; P=0.004) and negative linear correlation between IL-10 and IL-6 (r=-0.601; P=0.049) in patients with acute myocardial infarction. In conclusion, the present study showed an increase production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and decrease production of anti-inflammatory cytokines in acute myocardial infarction patients | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Acute myocardial infarction; cytokines | ||
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