TY - JOUR T1 - Decrease of plasma fibrinogen after eradication of <em>Helicobacter pylori</em> infection in patients with ischaemic heart disease JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 646 LP - 646 DO - 10.1136/hrt.82.5.646 VL - 82 IS - 5 AU - G TREIBER Y1 - 1999/11/01 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/82/5/646.abstract N2 - Editor,—Infectious agents such asChlamydia pneumoniae orHelicobacter pylori have been linked to ischaemic heart disease (IHD).1 ,2 Raised plasma fibrinogen has been claimed as a possible link betweenH pylori infection and IHD3 ,4; however, fibrinogen as an acute phase protein may only reflect systemic inflammation from other underlying diseases (usually not considered in previous publications).Our aim was to evaluate retrospectively a possible relation betweenH pylori infection, plasma fibrinogen, and IHD. We then planned to test the hypothesis that raised fibrinogen induced by H pylori is only important in patients with IHD in the absence of other systemic inflammation parameters.5 Finally, we attempted to lower plasma fibrinogen in this subgroup of patients by eradicatingH … ER -