Cardiovascular disease, resulting from atherosclerosis, is a leading cause of global
morbidity and mortality. Genetic predisposition and classical environmental risk factors …

Ferritin and increased iron stores first appeared on the list of cardiovascular risk factors more
than 30 years ago and their causal role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis has been …

Iron deficiency commonly affects patients with chronic kidney disease and has an important
burden in disease trajectory and quality of life; nonetheless current guidelines do not …

Excessive and misplaced iron promotes an array of neurodegenerative and endocrine
diseases as well as cardiomyopathy, arthropathy, neoplasia and infection. Vertebrates …

Background. Elevated serum iron levels have been associated with infectious outcomes in
various patient populations but, to our knowledge, have never been studied after liver …

It has been proposed that modest levels of stored iron, far less than conventional iron
overload, promote cardiovascular disease and that sustained iron depletion is protective …

The propensity of liver transplant recipients to develop more fulminant disease presentation
and a higher risk of disseminated disease due to a number of opportunistic infections …

The numerous acute and chronic diseases associated with excessive/misplaced iron are
categorized in this review in the following sections: 1) iron, by itself, can initiate the disease; …

Chlamydia pneumoniae is an obligatory intracellular bacterium causing chronic
inflammatory diseases in humans. We studied the role of the nutritive factors, iron and …

Monocyte infiltration across the endothelium is part of the innate immune response, however
it may contribute to severity of chronic conditions. We have investigated the effects of iron on …