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Statin Rx Cost-Effective Based on C-Reactive Proteins
(19 Mar 2010 03:30)
... statin treatments for people with normal low-density lipoprotein cholesterol but elevated levels of C-reactive protein would be cost-effective but could strain ... that stroke prevention was added to coronary heart disease prevention for the purposes of modeling. ...
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C-reactive protein as an adverse prognostic marker for men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC): Confirmatory results
(19 Mar 2010 07:03)
... previously reported that higher serum concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) are associated with shorter survival in ... individual categorical and continuous variables. Quartiles of CRP were: 0-1.0, 1.1-4.9, 5.0-17.0, and 17.1-311 mg/L. ...
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Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Fare Well in Statin Trial
(19 Mar 2010 03:30)
... LDL cholesterol but with elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation, were treated with ... subset analysis "support guidelines from the American Heart Association and the National Kidney Foundation to ...
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Rush goalie named Rookie of the Year
(19 Mar 2010 03:31)
... Muncy (RGV), Nick Sirota (MIZ), Ryan Garbutt (CRP), D: Jake Obermeyer (AMA), Sean Erickson (TUL), ... me. Ive had a chip on my heart all year. As hes fighting for his ...
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Beans are heart healthy, but take it easy at first
(15 Mar 2010 23:37)
... that very fiber. A high-fiber diet reduces levels of an inflammatory red flag — C-reactive protein, or CRP — in your blood. Elevated CRP may be a risk factor for heart attack ...
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Big Headlines for Omega-3
(18 Mar 2010 03:30)
... as higher levels of HDL cholesterol and decreased levels of inflammation markers such as C-reactive protein (CRP). Increased levels of CRP are a good predictor for the onset of both type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. ...
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Distinguishing Lyme Arthritis From Septic Arthritis in Children: Presented at AAOS
(17 Mar 2010 18:55)
... inflammatory markers including peripheral white blood cell count, peripheral blood differential, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, and Lyme disease serological testing. They also reviewed charts for the presence of fever ...
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Vertebral Osteomyelitis
(18 Mar 2010 03:36)
... and lumbar spine tenderness. His white-cell count is 9100 per cubic millimeter, and the C-reactive protein level is 343 mg per liter. Urine ...
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Prostrakan, Axis-Shield post double-digit sales growth for 2009
(18 Mar 2010 11:10)
... in revenues to 96.7 million, as sales of its Afinion test for high sensitivity C-Reactive Protein, an important marker for cardiovascular disease, rocketed 72.1% to 14.8 million. And Afinion looks set to make the company ...
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Predictive factors for acute renal cortical scintigraphic lesion and ultimate scar formation in children with first febrile urinary tract infection
(18 Mar 2010 16:51)
... with differential count, absolute neutrophil count, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, urinalysis, Gram's stain, culture, C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate) variables. Dimercapto-succinic acid scintigraphy was performed within 5 days and at ...
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Old Arthritis Drug May Help Diabetics
(17 Mar 2010 03:31)
... sold under several brand names, has reduced blood glucose, triglycerides, free fatty acids, and C-reactive protein concentrations in small proof-of-concept studies, Shoelson and colleagues noted. In those studies, the drug ...
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Health Canada Approves New Indication for CRESTOR(R) (ROSUVASTATIN CALCIUM) (CNW)
(17 Mar 2010 13:34)
... patients with low to normal low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and raised high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP).(E) This demonstrates unprecedented cardiovascular risk ... trial also suggests that people with high hsCRP and two or more risk factors may ...
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Prognostic factors in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma
(15 Mar 2010 06:20)
... low hemoglobin (< lower limit of normal), C-reactive protein (CRP) >0.3, and serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) ... metastasis at first visit, poor ECOG PS andCRP >0.3 were usedto categorize patients into three ...
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Atherotech Recruits Top Experts in Fight Against Heart Disease
(15 Mar 2010 15:33)
... more than a dozen cardiovascular and metabolic tests. Cardiometabolic testing available through Atherotech includes C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), Lp-PLA2, apoE genotype, NT-proBNP, Cystatin C, T3 and T4 when TSH is abnormal, plus ...
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Clearing the air about beans and inflammation
(16 Mar 2010 04:55)
... that very fiber. A high-fiber diet reduces levels of an inflammatory red flag - C-reactive protein, or CRP - in your blood. Elevated CRP may be a risk factor for heart attack ...
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