When you have lab work done and you check your high sensitivity C-reactive protein (Hs-CRP) it invariably comes with a chart that states your risk for a future cardiovascular event. Broken up into low, average and high. If LDL cholesterol is so predictive of heart disease and thus heart attack, why doesn’t it come with such a chart? That’s because LDL is a dependent variable that needs other factors to be present for it to be a risk factor whereas inflammation is an independent variable, it impl
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When you have lab work done and you check your high sensitivity C-reactive protein (Hs-CRP) it invariably comes with a chart that states your risk for a future cardiovascular event. Broken up into low, average and high. If LDL cholesterol is so predictive of heart disease and thus heart attack, why doesn’t it come with such a chart? That’s because LDL is a dependent variable that needs other factors to be present for it to be a risk factor whereas inflammation is an independent variable, it impl
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