Soluble Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecules May be Protective of Future Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Findings from the PREVEND Prospective Cohort Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Plasma VCAM-1 is inversely and independently associated with CVD. However, VCAM-1 provides no significant improvement in CVD risk assessment beyond conventional CVD risk factors.
PMID: 28202840 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis - February 20, 2017 Category: Cardiology Tags: J Atheroscler Thromb Source Type: research