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Article: Can food allergy trigger myocardial infarction? (Literature Review & Commentary).(Brief Article)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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Seventy-six patients who had experienced a myocardial infarction before age 45 (mean age, 39 years) were studied. Fourteen of these patients (18%) had increased levels of circulating immune complexes (CICs) at least three years after the acute event. In contrast, only 5% of age-matched healthy controls had GIGs. In half of the 14 patients with elevated CICs, these complexes were found to contain antibodies against food proteins, as well as the corresponding antigens. The food proteins involved were bovine serum albumin (n = 6), gliadin (n = 5), and ovalbumin (n = 1). Four patients with GIGs to bovine serum albumin underwent a two-week elimination diet, followed by a single ...