Prospective study of C-reactive protein and the risk of future cardiovascular events among apparently healthy women.
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Summary
CRP is a strong independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease that adds to the predictive value of risk models based on usual factors alone and was a predictor among subgroups of women with low as well as high risk as defined by other cardiovascular risk factors.
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- article
- Published
- 1998-08-25
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- 1,840
- References
- 13
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- Open access
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Keywords
Medicine, C-reactive protein, Internal medicine, Prospective cohort study, Myocardial infarction
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