A COURSE of injections in childhood might help protect people from heart disease later in life. And for those whose arteries are already clogged up, a dose of antibodies could provide immediate benefits. That’s the enticing vision raised by animal studies.
“It is an extremely attractive idea,” says heart expert Andrew Newby at Bristol Royal Infirmary in the UK, who chaired a session of the European Vascular Genomics Network meeting in Cambridge last week where the vaccine research was presented. “In principle it would be a relatively short-term treatment, but give lifetime protection,” he says.
Coronary heart disease is the…
