Helicobacter pylori infection: relation with cardiovascular risk factors, ischaemic heart disease, and social class.

Abstract

H pylori may be independently associated with the development of ischaemic heart disease but if this is so the mechanism by which this effect is exerted is not through increased concentration of plasma fibrinogen. H pylori infection does not explain the social class inequality in ischaemic heart disease which exists independently of known cardiovascular risk factors.