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SUBMITTER: Reindel R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4086943 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reindel Rebecca R Kim Kwang-Youn A KY Baker Susan C SC Shulman Stanford T ST Perlman Elizabeth J EJ Lingen Mark W MW Trevenen Cynthia C Rowley Anne H AH
The Pediatric infectious disease journal 20140601 6
Periostin was upregulated 11-fold in acute and chronic Kawasaki disease coronary arteries compared with controls (P = 0.003). Kawasaki disease patients had significantly elevated serum periostin values compared with febrile controls (P = 0.0086). There was no relationship between serum periostin values and age, gender or acute phase reactants; there was a relationship between serum periostin and maximal coronary artery Z scores that did not reach significance (P = 0.08). Periostin may prove to b ...[more]