@ARTICLE{Kabir, author = {Bahar, M.A and Faghihi Kashani, A.H and Haghighat, P and Kabir, A and Poor Eslami, M and }, title = {Association Between Helicobacter Pylori Infection and Coronary Heart Disease}, volume = {11}, number = {39}, abstract ={Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most causes of morbidity and mortality in industrial and developing countries such as Iran. Different studies have been done to find out whether or not Helicobacter Pylori(HP) is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, but different results have been obtained. HP infection is common in our country too. In this analytic cross-sectional study, which was conducted on 261 patients, 131 hospitalized patients were selected from CCU ward as cases and 130 hospitalized patients from surgery and orthopedic wards of Iran University of Medical Sciences hospitals as controls. HP infection was determined according to IgG titer using ELIZA method. T-test, chi-square and general linear model were used for the analysis of the data. Sex and job were the same in both groups. Cases had higher age and weight(P }, URL = {http://rjms.iums.ac.ir/article-1-112-en.html}, eprint = {http://rjms.iums.ac.ir/article-1-112-en.pdf}, journal = {Razi Journal of Medical Sciences}, doi = {}, year = {2004} }