No strong correlations were observed between H pylori seropositivity and measurements of other risk factors for coronary heart disease (plasma lipids, fibrinogen, C reactive protein, albumin, etc).
In patients with angiographically defined CAD, tHCY is a significant predictor of mortality, independent of traditional risk factors, CRP, and MTHFR genotype.
The presence of CAD was associated with current, past or passive smoking, a history of diabetes and high blood pressure, a positive family risk factors in this study; levels were below history of CAD, body fat percentage, waist-hip ratio (WHR), low apolipoprotein A1 or low HDL, lipoprotein (a), glucose, insulin, insulin resistance, C-reactive protein (CRP), total cholesterol to HDL ratio (TC/HDL) and creatinine on univariate conditional logistic regression analysis.
We evaluated whether the Asp299Gly polymorphism in the TLR4 gene, which impairs inflammatory responses, is associated with reduced vascular inflammation (assessed by C-reactive protein [CRP]) and a decreased risk for CAD and diabetes.
3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl (HMG)-coenzyme A (CoA) reductase inhibitors, or statins, significantly reduce cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with or without coronary artery disease and reduce plasma CRP levels in humans.
Associations of fibrinogen and C-reactive protein with prevalent and incident coronary heart disease are attenuated by adjustment for confounding factors. British Women's Heart and Health Study.
The possible roles of APOA5 variants in determining the risk of myocardial infarction and coronary artery disease development, as well as in the determination of low-density lipoprotein-particle size or plasma concentrations of C-reactive protein and high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, are also summarized.
In the 523 Caucasian T2D patients, levels of sPLA(2)IIa, independent of CRP, were negatively correlated with total antioxidant status (P = 0.003) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (P = 0.006) in men and correlated with CAD status in women (P = 0.002) (Odds ratio of top two tertiles versus bottom = 2.50) [95% CI (1.13-5.53) P = 0.024].
Family histories of diabetes or coronary heart disease were not independently associated with C-reactive protein concentration, suggesting that the association between such family histories and diabetes and coronary heart disease are not explained by C-reactive protein concentration or perhaps by inflammation.
We examined the effects of a variable nucleotide tandem repeats (VNTR) in intron 4, G894T in exon 7 and T-786C at the promoter region of NOS3 on i) C-reactive protein (CRP) and macrophage-colony stimulating-factor (MCSF), and ii) augmentation index (AI) measured by pulse-wave analysis , flow-mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery, intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid and femoral artery using ultrasonography and ankle-brachial index (ABI) in 122 patients with chronic coronary artery disease (CAD) who underwent coronary angiography.
Genetic variation within CRP is associated with serum CRP levels in the general population and may be associated with prevalent coronary heart disease.
We investigated the relationships among the +1444C/T polymorphism in the C-reactive protein (CRP) gene and the concentration of CRP and the risk of coronary heart disease.