Free radical damage and the role of cytokines in the pathophysiology of various cardiac diseases is the subject of considerable current cardiovascular and medical research. The only stamp which has been released specifically relating to these compounds came from Kuwait in 1995. This was to mark the international medical conference on trace elements, free radicals, cytokines, chromosomal analysis, and tumour markers in clinical medicine and biochemistry held on 20–23 March 1995.

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