Increased Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Related to Smoking Intensity and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Thromb Haemost. 2020 Nov;120(11):1587-1589. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1714371. Epub 2020 Aug 9.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
² Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
³ First Department of Internal Medicine and Laboratory of Molecular Hematology, Department of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
⁴ First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
⁵ Cardiovascular Prevention and Research Unit, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 32772350
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1714371

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MeSH terms

Aged
Atherosclerosis / blood*
Atherosclerosis / epidemiology
Citrulline / chemistry
Comorbidity
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / blood*
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / epidemiology
Endothelium, Vascular / pathology
Extracellular Traps*
Female
Histones / chemistry
Humans
Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 / blood
Male
Middle Aged
Neutrophil Activation*
P-Selectin / blood
Plaque, Atherosclerotic / blood
Plaque, Atherosclerotic / epidemiology
Rupture, Spontaneous
Smoking / blood*
Smoking / epidemiology
Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 / blood

Substances

Histones
ICAM1 protein, human
P-Selectin
Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1
Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1
Citrulline

Grants and funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/CH 1862/2-1