Anti-inflammatory therapy for heart failure.
Recently, inflammation has been shown to be an important aspect of cardiovascular diseases, and markers of inflammation predict risk of adverse cardiovascular events. Accumulating evidence shows that heart failure is an inflammatory disease, and anti-inflammatory therapy by various agents would be a promising future treatment for heart failure.
Matsumori
Akira
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Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Kawahara-cho Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8397, Japan. amat@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D012306:Risk
D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents