Immunogenetic characteristics of patients with ischemic heart disease
Balliuzek, M.F.; Serova, L.D.; Bondarenko, B.B.
Kardiologiia 24(10): 77-81
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-9040 PMID: 6521189 Document Number: 237426
The distribution of the principal erythrocyte and HLA-antigens was investigated in 202 males aged 20-50 years with a history of myocardial infarction and various courses of coronary heart disease. The occurrence of one or the other group of antigens differed both as compared with a group of healthy subjects (619 subjects) and in relation to the anamnestic and clinical characteristics of the disease course. The findings helped to draw a conclusion as to the presence of associative links between a number of the studied antigens (A (II), MN, HLA-B7, HLA-B14, HLA-B15, HLA-CW4) and the risk of the development of, at least, some forms of coronary heart disease.