Cytomegalovirus chronic infection as a risk factor for stroke: A prospective study

Viktorija Ķeniņa; Pauls Auce; Zanda Priede; Inese Irbe; Lana Vainšteina; Elvira Smeltere; Andrejs Millers

doi:10.2478/v10046-010-0023-8

Cytomegalovirus chronic infection as a risk factor for stroke: A prospective study

Viktorija Ķeniņa, Pauls Auce, Zanda Priede, Inese Irbe, Lana Vainšteina, Elvira Smeltere, Andrejs Millers

Rīga Stradiņš University

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Abstract

Stroke is the second most common cause of death in the world and a major cause of long-term disability. Chronic infection is an independent risk factor for ischemic stroke and related forms of atherosclerotic vascular disease. The aim of our study was to compare the plasma Cytomegalovirus (CMV) immunoglobulin G antibody level in a patient and control group, and to determine the association of CMV chronic infection with ischemic stroke, and with stroke subtype. The present study does not present a cogent demonstration that cytomegalovirus chronic infection is a risk factor of stroke. Further studies are necessary to clarify the effective prophylactic measures to determine other significant risk factors for stroke.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	133-136
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Section B: Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences
Volume	64
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2478/v10046-010-0023-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2010

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Chronic infection
Cytomegalovirus infection
Stroke

Field of Science*

3.2 Clinical medicine

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