Posts Tagged ‘human papillomavirus’

October 24th, 2011

New Study Proposes Possible Causative Role for HPV in Atherosclerosis

Human papillomavirus (HPV) may play a role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Hus-Ko Kuo and Ken Fujise speculated that HPV may be a risk factor for CVD because it inactivates the tumor-suppressor protein p53, which plays a regulatory […]