The prognostic role of gamma-glutamyltransferase for cardiovascular events
Emdin, M.; Pompella, A.; Passino, C.; Paolicchi, A.
Recenti Progressi in Medicina 97(5): 241-245
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0034-1193 PMID: 16838554 Document Number: 599774
Serum gamma-glutamyltransferasis activity is a low-cost, highly sensitive laboratory test. Though it is currently considered as an index of hepato-biliary dysfunction and alcohol abuse, recent epidemiological and pathologic studies have proposed its independent role in the pathogenesis and clinical evolution of cardiovascular diseases brought by atherosclerosis, associated with a gamma-glutamyltransferase-linked prooxidant effect of glutathione catabolism within the plaque.