Clinical cardiology
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Clinical cardiology · Mar 2007
Combined use of endothelial function assessed by brachial ultrasound and high-sensitive C-reactive protein in predicting cardiovascular events.
Endothelial function plays a key role in determining the clinical manifestations of atherosclerotic lesions. Elevated high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP) relates to long-term prognosis of cardiovascular disease. ⋯ Patients with suspected coronary artery disease may benefit from risk stratification based on both endothelium-dependent FMD and hsCRP, since combined these two factors contribute significantly toward the incidence of cardiovascular events.
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Clinical cardiology · Mar 2007
Biography Historical ArticleTheodore Caldwell Janeway, clinician and pathophysiologist.