CD40LG and atherosclerosis: It was found that serum level of sCD40L correlated significantly with cIMT (R = 0.40, p = 0.04) and total cholesterol blood level (R = 0.38, p = 0.01) in a group of patients with atherosclerosis and with total cholesterol levels (R = 0.41, p = 0.02) and DBP (R = 0.3, p = 0.04) in the non-atherosclerosis group.