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Alfred Bove, past president of the American College of Cardiology, says the results of tests for c-reactive protein, which has been linked to heart-attack risk, can be elevated if patients have a bad cold or a bladder infection.

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Worried About Cholesterol? Order Your Own Tests Anna Wilde Mathews 2011

The recent suggestion that the blood test for c-reactive protein, CRP, should be requested by everyone over 40 as a screening test for blood vessel disease that could lead to a heart attack, is the insignia of a 90-second news report glossing over the complexity of an issue and misleads by presenting, as fact, speculation and unproven hypotheses.

Bruce A. Barron: Medicine and the Media: CRP Testing Bruce A. Barron 2011

The recent suggestion that the blood test for c-reactive protein, CRP, should be requested by everyone over 40 as a screening test for blood vessel disease that could lead to a heart attack, is the insignia of a 90-second news report glossing over the complexity of an issue and misleads by presenting, as fact, speculation and unproven hypotheses.

Bruce A. Barron: Medicine and the Media: CRP Testing Bruce A. Barron 2011

Rather than focus on weight loss, people need to focus on reliable indicators of health - blood pressure; serum HDLs, LDLs, cholesterol; c-reactive protein; insulin resistance; and blood glucose levels.

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The recent suggestion that the blood test for c-reactive protein, CRP, should be requested by everyone over 40 as a screening test for blood vessel disease that could lead to a heart attack, is the insignia of a 90-second news report glossing over the complexity of an issue and misleads by presenting, as fact, speculation and unproven hypotheses.

Bruce A. Barron: Medicine and the Media: CRP Testing Bruce A. Barron 2011

By the way I got a c-reactive score of 2.2 on the PP diet.

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Could we not "fine tune" the risk assessment process by having a data base such as the Framingham data base but with more factors added on that seem to correlate with cardiac events, for example c-reactive protein, stress test results etc?

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Could we not "fine tune" the risk assessment process by having a data base such as the Framingham data base but with more factors added on that seem to correlate with cardiac events, for example c-reactive protein, stress test results etc?

Individual medical risk assessment-a peculiar, "elusive,ambiguous "process james gaulte 2007

We could consider him as a member of a set defined by his age, his c-reactive protein value, his performance on a stress test, his calcium score on a heart CT scan and his triglyceride level and if we consider the event rate in a group of men with these features we may well arrive a different value which could be 22%.

Individual medical risk assessment-a peculiar, "elusive,ambiguous "process james gaulte 2007