CHD has been increasingly characterised as a chronic inflammatory process involving such factors as intercellular adhesion molecules (ie, Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 (ICAM-1), Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 (VCAM-1)) facilitating the transendothelial migration of inflammation-related cells into vascular tissues.4 Here, VCAM1 is linked to coronary artery disorder.