C-reactive protein and coronary heart disease - risk marker or risk factor?
Cardiovascular diseases are gaining a dubious distinction of becoming the leading cause of death. Thus, the search for new risk markers and risk factors of cardiovascular disease continue, in an attempt to predict the risk of cardiovascular events with greater precision. Of all the risk markers ava...
Main Authors: | J. Fiddy Davis, G. Arun Maiya, Sudha Vidyasagar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2012-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Clinical and Scientific Research |
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Online Access: | http://svimstpt.ap.nic.in/jcsr/oct-dec%2012_files/ra1.pdf |
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