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View Post: Life Is Sweet Like Cotton Candy..: How many hours do u sleep?
20 hours ago by gerbera  
Complete and partial lack of sleep increased the blood concentrations of High sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hs-cRP), the strongest predictor of heart attacks. Even after getting adequate sleep later, the levels stayed high! ...
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View Post: Women analyzed in JUPITER
6 hours ago
Orlando, FL - Treating healthy women with low LDL cholesterol but elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) levels with rosuvastatin (Crestor, AstraZeneca) cuts their risk of cardiovascular events in half, according to a new ...
View Blog: theHeart.org - Lipid/Metabolic - http://www.theheart.org/condition/lipid-metabolic.do

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View Post: Effects of Statin Therapy According to Plasma High-Sensitivity C ...
18 Nov 2009 by McMurray JJ, Kjekshus J, Gullestad L, Dunselman...  
Methods and Results-We compared 10 mg rosuvastatin daily with placebo in patients with ischemic systolic heart failure according to baseline high sensitivity-C reactive protein (hs-CRP) <2.0 mg/L (placebo, n=779; rosuvastatin, ...
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View Post: Statins benefit people with low cholesterol and high CRP as much ...
22 Sep 2009
22, 2009 — Statin therapy may be as effective in reducing heart attack, stroke, the need for artery-opening procedures, or heart-related death in people with normal or even low cholesterol but elevated high sensitivity C-reactive ...
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View Post: Effects of pitavastatin on lipid profiles and high-sensitivity CRP
11 Nov 2009 by Administrator  
AIM: The effect of pitavastatin on high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) has not been reported, yet, in humans. We, therefore, investigated the effects of pitavastatin on lipid profiles and hs-CRP in Japanese subjects with ...
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View Post: The Cholesterol myth » level10crossfit.com
18 Nov 2009 by admin  
Of the markers of inflammation, the high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP) is the most studied, with evidence that it may also play a direct pathogenic role in atherosclerotic lesion formation. In the absence of active infection, ...
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View Post: CRP predicts mortality and MI, but not stroke
29 Oct 2009
A new analysis from the Northern Manhattan Study finds that high-sensitivity C-reactive protein was modestly associated with mortality and MI but not ischemic stroke in this multiethnic population, suggesting the predictive value may ...
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View Post: FuturePundit: Statin Cuts Heart Risk With High CRP
24 Sep 2009 by Randall Parker  
September 24, 2009. Statin Cuts Heart Risk With High CRP. People with high sensitivity C-reactive protein (an inflammation marker) benefit from a cholesterol-lowering statin even if their cholesterol is low. DALLAS, Sept. ...
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View Post: High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein May Predict Mortality - But ...
19 Oct 2009
In stroke-free middle-aged and older people, higher levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein are associated with a modestly increased risk of heart attack and death, but are not associated with an increased risk of stroke, ...
View Blog: Modern Medicine - Hypertension - http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Hypertension/Articl...

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View Post: Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 and High-Sensitivity C ...
26 Jan 2009 by Nambi, V., Hoogeveen, RC, Chambless, L.,...  
Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Improve the Stratification of Ischemic Stroke Risk in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Vijay Nambi, MD; Ron C. Hoogeveen, PhD; ...
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