Macrolide Treatment Does Not Influence Serum Homocysteine in Chlamydia pneumoniae-seropositive Patients Suffering from Atherosclerosis

摘要

Both chronic infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae and hyperhomocysteinemia are assumed to increase the atherosclerotic risk (1)(2). Recently, we reported that C. pneumoniae seropositivity is linked with hyperhomocysteinemia in male patients suffering from established atherosclerosis (3). However, the nature of the relationship between the two risk factors is still elusive.To further investigate the relationship between C. pneumoniae seropositivity and hyperhomocysteinemia, we randomly assigned 40 C. pneumoniae -seropositive men …