Retraction: Statement of Retraction: Khaki-khatibi F, Yaghoubi A.R, Rahbani N.M. “Study of antioxidant enzymes, lipid peroxidation, lipid profile and immunologic factor in coronary artery disease in East Azarbijan”

Abstract

The Editors and Publisher of the International Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Research would like to inform the readers that the following article has been retracted from the journal:

Khaki-khatibi F, Yaghoubi A.R, Rahbani N.M. Study of antioxidant enzymes, lipid peroxidation, lipid profile and immunologic factor in coronary artery disease in East Azarbijan. Int J Med Biomed Res 2012;1(2):147-152. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14194/ijmbr.1210

It was found out that a substantially similar version of this article had been submitted to, and published in Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research.

Fatemeh Khaki Khatibi, Alireza Yaghoubi, Nosratollah Zarghami, Mohammad Rahbani, Hossein Babaie. Evaluation of hs-CRP, antioxidant markers and MDA in patients of coronary artery disease (CAD) containing non-smokers and non-diabetics. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res 2011; Vol.2 (4):13-18.

The article has been retracted upon the request of the corresponding author, Khaki-khatibi F, due to admitted plagiarism.

However, this constitutes a violation of publication ethics. It is a breach of warranties made by the author with respect to originality upon which we received, peer-reviewed, accepted and published the article. To maintain scholarly record, the article will remain online; however, it would be watermarked on each page as RETRACTED. We offer apologies to our readers for not detecting this during the evaluation process.