Review article

Is there an association of allergy and cardiovascular disease?

Katarzyna Bergmann ; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Grazyna Sypniewska ; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases and allergic diseases occur commonly in developed countries. They lead to serious health complications and significantly impair the quality of life. Both types of diseases are cha-racterized by excessive inflammatory processes. Recent studies suggest a link between allergy and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, resulting from overactivity of the immune system in aller-gic diseases and increased synthesis of proinflammatory mediators, which has been well documented in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. The aim of this article is to present current data on the role of proinflammatory factors in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases and allergies and on potential relationship between these disorders.

Keywords

cardiovascular disease; allergy; proinflammatory cytokines

Hrčak ID:

72941

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72941

Publication date:

15.10.2011.

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