I guess no one in the medical world reads anything from the WHO. They don't know that stroke has been called neurological disease by the WHO since 2006 not cardiovascular, once again proving our medical 'professionals' don't keep up to date in their field!
This Biomarker May Be More Predictive of Cardiovascular Disease Than Cholesterol
Doctors have long looked at certain risk factors including blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, and family history to predict a patient’s risk for cardiovascular disease. But increasingly, another lesser known biomarker, known as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), seems to play an important role in whether a patient is at risk for a heart attack or stroke.
As a result, the American College of Cardiology recently published a report that found hsCRP strongly predicts recurrent cardiovascular events and elevated hsCRP in otherwise healthy individuals puts them into a higher-risk group, even if cholesterol levels are normal.
“High-sensitivity CRP has been shown to be an independent marker of risk in addition to and in some cases over and above all other risk factors that we typically talk about including smoking, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight,” said James D. Mills, MD, a cardiologist at RWJBarnabas Health in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
What is CRP?
CRP is produced by the liver when the body’s immune system is fighting infection or when chronic immune issues like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and heart disease cause levels to remain elevated.
HsCRP is a more sensitive test that’s less likely to show inflammation caused by infection or an injury because it looks for smaller increases that are the result of low grade, long-term inflammation, more likely to be caused by cardiovascular and autoimmune disease.
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