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 ...

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 ...

Heart attacks do not always come with the dramatic chest pain. Sometimes, they are hidden behind the everyday symptoms like fatigue, dizziness, jaw, neck, and back pain, cold sweats, or even ...

In another recent American College of Rheumatology Reading Room commentary, I remarked on the excitement of novel peripheral blood markers of disease as a significant tool in our rheumatology arsenal.