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Ridker PM, Cushman M, Stampfer MJ, Tracy RP, Hennekens CH
Inflammation, aspirin, and the risk of cardiovascular
disease in apparently healthy men
N Engl J Med
(Apr) 336:973-979 1997

This article is especially interesting given the recent reports of the poor
prognostic value of a high C-reactive protein level in ESRD patients; e.g.,
see
Bergstrom et al.
The study shows that CRP is a marker for systemic inflammation which predicts
future myocardial infarction and stroke in healthy patients.
The abstract of this paper is available from the National Library of
Medicine's PubMed site:
click here .
For accompanying editorial by Maseri:
Click here.
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