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Re:Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition by carbocation on Monday March 12, 2018 @06:35AM (#16567201)
Specific anti inflammatories actually do work: a landmark trial from last year showed that canakinumab (an IL1 antagonist) reduces recurrent adverse cardiac events.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28845751/

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Re:Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition by LinuxBender on Monday March 12, 2018 @01:15PM (#16569631)
Is there a natural form of that drug or has it been modified from its original form?
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Re:Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition by carbocation on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:35PM (#16577941)
This particular drug is a human monoclonal antibody, so it's different from many of the small molecule drugs that are derived from natural compounds.
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