Elevated levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a biomarker commonly used to assess inflammation, may be associated with an increased risk for depression, new research suggests. Data from 2 general ...

The authors of this study used Mendelian randomization to assess whether C-reactive protein (CRP) is causative for coronary heart disease (CHD). In the absence of randomized studies directly ...

(The Conversation) – Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Since researchers first established ...

Further, although serum ferritin is recognized as a proinflammatory biomarker that is frequently elevated in a variety of autoimmune disorders, the role it plays in AAV still needs to be elucidated.

The biological function of the C-reactive protein, CRP, has long been unknown. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden now show that this protein has a beneficial function in systemic lupus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blood vessel damage from fatty and high-sugar diets leads to inflammation, which can be detected by measuring C-reactive protein.

(The Conversation) – Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Since researchers first established the link between diet, cholesterol and heart disease in the 1950s, risk for ...