Measuring hsCRP—An Important Part of a Comprehensive Risk Profile or a Clinically Redundant Practice?
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The median values for hsCRP are 2.5 mg/l (American women) and 1.5 mg/l (American men) [2]. Typical recommendations are to measure hsCRP in ‘‘intermediate risk’’ patients to help classify them into either a higher or lower risk category [3,4]. Intermediate risk is usually, and arbitrarily, described as either a 10%–20% [3,4] or 5%–20% [5,6] 10year risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD). It has been suggested that hsCRP levels,1, 1–3, or .3 mg/l represent lower, moderate, and higher relative risk of future heart disease, respectively.
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