Whenever we think of the highest marker for heart attack, cholesterol is the name that comes up first. Yet, there’s another blood test that might actually out‑shine cholesterol, in flagging your risk ...

TORONTO — Unlike standard C-reactive protein (CRP) testing, results from high-sensitivity CRP (hs-CRP) testing may be a reliable marker of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) disease activity, findings from a ...

Some important health tests can reveal hidden health problems before symptoms appear. Learn which screenings doctors ...

For women, levels of LDL cholesterol, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), and lipoprotein(a) at middle age are strongly associated with cardiovascular events over the next three decades, ...

C-reactive protein (CRP), the classical acute-phase protein, is the most extensively studied systemic marker of inflammation. In previous decades, CRP has been the focus of intense investigation to ...