Atherosclerosis

C-reactive protein is more than a heart disease marker

Published in Heart Disease Weekly, February 22nd, 2004

C-reactive protein, already accepted as indicating a risk of heart disease, also participates in the process of atherosclerosis that narrows heart arteries, said a Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) researcher.

In a report that went online in the rapid-track portion of the web site of Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, January 26, 2004, Dr. Lawrence Chan, chief of the BCM division of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism, and members of his laboratory said that when mice genetically prone to develop atherosclerosis also produced a human form of C-reactive protein, they developed larger lesions associated with the buildup of fatty plaque in...

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