Human cytomegalovirus, endothelial function and atherosclerosis

Cairistine Grahame-Clarke1

  • 1Department of Cardiology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UZ, UK. CAIRISTINE.GRAHAME-CLARKE@nnuh.nhs.uk

Herpes : the Journal of the IHMF
|October 8, 2005
PubMed

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) serology is linked to several measures of endothelial dysfunction. There is substantial evidence for HCMV having an aetiological role in transplant arterial disease and accumulating evidence for HCMV in the origins of preeclampsia. However, whether HCMV is a clinically significant cause of atherosclerosis in the general, immunocompetent population remains to be seen.