LONG-TERM INTERLEUKIN-6 LEVELS AND SUBSEQUENT RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE: TWO NEW PROSPECTIVE STUDIES AND A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.

Long-term interleukin-6 levels and subsequent risk of coronary heart disease: two new prospective studies and a systematic review.

BackgroundThe relevance to coronary heart disease (CHD) of cytokines that govern inflammatory cascades, such as interleukin-6 (IL-6), may be underestimated because such mediators are short acting and prone to fluctuations.We evaluated associations of long-term circulating IL-6 levels with CHD risk (defined as nonfatal myocardial infarction [MI] or

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Inequality and Poverty When Effort Matters

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and poverty are overestimates.The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim.It is shown that, while the labor supplies of American adults have a positive bookend income gradient, the heterogeneity in labor supplies gene

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