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      C-Reactive Protein Predicts Death in Patients with Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

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          C-reactive protein (CRP) has been associated with atherosclerotic complications, and we hypothesized that CRP levels might also predict death in non-ischemic patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Two hundred and three patients with non-ischemic left ventricular dysfunction undergoing cardiac catheterization were included and were followed for 2.4 ± 1.4 years to determine the incidence of fatal events. Death occurred in 15% of patients with low CRP (1st and 2nd tertiles) and 30% of patients with high CRP (3rd tertile). After adjustment for 11 covariates, high CRP (p = 0.037, hazard ratio = 2.0) significantly and independently predicted mortality. Even in the absence of coronary artery disease, patients with left ventricular dysfunction are at increased risk of mortality based on their baseline CRP concentrations.

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          Effect of Statin Therapy on C-Reactive Protein Levels

          Michelle A Albert, Ellie Danielson, Nader Rifai … (2001)
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            Low grade inflammation and coronary heart disease: prospective study and updated meta-analyses

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              C-reactive protein: relation to total mortality, cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular risk factors in men.

              B Butland, P Elwood, Michael A Mendall … (2000)
              There is much interest in reported associations between serum C-reactive protein and incident ischaemic heart disease. It is uncertain what this association represents. We aimed to assess the effect of confounding from a number of different sources in the Caerphilly Prospective Heart Disease Study and in particular whether the low grade inflammation indicated by C-reactive protein may be the mechanism whereby non-circulating risk factors may influence pathogenesis of ischaemic heart disease. Plasma specimens collected during 1979-83 from 1395 men with sufficient sample remaining were assayed for serum C-reactive protein by ELISA. Subsequent mortality and incident ischaemic heart disease events were ascertained from death certificates, hospital records and electrocardiographic changes at 5-yearly follow-up examinations. There was a positive association between C-reactive protein and incident ischaemic heart disease (P<0.005) mainly with fatal disease (P<0.002). There was also a positive association with all-cause mortality (P<0.0001). C-reactive protein was significantly associated with a number of non-circulating risk factors including body mass index (P<0.0001), smoking (P<0.0001), low forced expiratory volume in 1 s (P<0.0001), height (P=0.025), low childhood social class (P=0.014) and age (P=0.036). C-reactive protein was also associated positively with circulating risk factors including viscosity, leukocyte count, fibrinogen (all P<0.0001) and insulin (P=0.0058). After adjustment for non-circulating risk factors the association with all-incident ischaemic heart disease and ischaemic heart disease death became non-significant, but the association with all-cause mortality remained (P=0.033). Further adjustment for fibrinogen however removed any hint of an increasing trend in odds for all three outcomes. C-reactive protein levels are raised in association with a variety of established cardiovascular risk factors. Neither C-reactive protein nor the systemic inflammation it represents appears to play a direct role in the development of ischaemic heart disease. Copyright 2000 The European Society of Cardiology.
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                Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology
                Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312
                Title: Cardiology
                Publisher: S. Karger AG
                ISSN (Print): 0008-6312
                ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751
                Publication date Subscription-year: 2005
                Publication date (Print): September 2005
                Publication date (Electronic): 04 October 2005
                Volume: 104
                Issue: 4
                Pages: 196-201
                Affiliations
                aCardiovascular Department, LDS Hospital, and bUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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                Publisher ID: 88138 Other ID: Cardiology 2005;104:196–201
                DOI: 10.1159/000088138
                PubMed ID: 16155394
                SO-VID: 00df5958-877c-4566-9aa0-f3b6ff63f2a9
                Copyright © © 2005 S. Karger AG, Basel
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                History
                Date received : 22 March 2005
                Date accepted : 22 April 2005
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 1, References: 33, Pages: 6
                Categories
                Subject: General Cardiology

                ScienceOpen disciplines: General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
                Keywords: Left ventricular dysfunction,Inflammation,Heart failure
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: General medicine, Neurology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Internal medicine, Nephrology
                Keywords: Left ventricular dysfunction, Inflammation, Heart failure

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