C-Reactive Protein and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Men and Women From the Framingham Heart Study
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- 28 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 165 (21) , 2473-2478
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.165.21.2473
Abstract
Traditional risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been shown to effectively predict vascular disease events.1-3 Age, sex, blood pressure, total cholesterol level, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) level, and cigarette smoking have been considered key factors to assess risk of vascular disease, using continuous or categorical variables. In addition, type 2 diabetes mellitus is highly related to CVD risk, and disease management guidelines in the United States now consider this diagnosis a coronary disease risk equivalent because it augments vascular disease risk so markedly.4,5This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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