title: The relationship between helicobacter pylori infection and myocardial infarction.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Coronary Artery Disease is known as the main cause of death in industrialized countries. Relation between this disease and some infections such as Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) has been shown in several studies. The purpose of this study was to dermine the relationship between Hypylori and mycardical infarctions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-three myocardial infarction patients and 78 individuals with no history of this disease were compared. Patients and control matched for age and sex person to person by the match method. Levels of serum IgA and IgG antibodies against H. pylori were measured by Elisa method. Also, cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL, HDL measured in both groups and data were compared between two groups in terms of relation with cardiac risk factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From 151 participants, 73 were patients and 78 were control subjects. The percentage of IgG positive cases against H. pylori was 57.5% in the case group and 32.1% in the control group (p=0.002, OR: 2.87 CI: 95%; 1.5-5.6). Meanwhile, there was no significant difference in IgA positive cases between the two groups (42.5% and 48.7% in the case and control groups, respectively) (p=0.44; OR: 0.78 95% CI; 0.41-1.48). The study showed 74.2% of cases in the case group and 45.2% in the control group were positive for both IgG and IgA (p=0.01; OR: 3.5 95% CI; 1.3-9.5). No significant differences were found between two groups in terms of relation between H. pylori related antibodies level and heart disease classic risk factors (smoking, hypertension,…), sex, and age, but between dyslipidemia and H. pylori related antibodies was significant differences in case group (p=0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  According to the results, it seems there is a relation between H. pylori infection and myocardial infarction. Also, between dislipidemia and H. Pylori antibodies in case group were significant difference. Therefore, H. pylori can be a new risk factor for atherosclerosis or can be exacerbate effect of other risk factors. Proper diagnosis and treatment of these infections can be useful in prone patients. More studies with larger sample groups are needed to review the possible role of this pathogen as a heart disease risk factor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Disease, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
authors.forename: Zohreh
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Azarkar
authors.forename: Majid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jafarnejad
authors.forename: Gholamreza
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sharifzadeh
keywords: Helicobacter pylori; IgA; IgG; Myocardial infarction.
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