Protein Is Factor in Heart Disease, Researchers Say

NY Times ^ | January 6, 2005 | GINA KOLATA

[netmilsmom]

bttt

[EdReform]

BTTT for later

[goodnesswins]

FINALLY....my friends and family won't think I'm crazy.....I've been recommending CRP checks for 5 plus years....it's a measure of INFLAMMATION.....whether in the heart or elsewhere....and IT MATTERS!

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[Lil'freeper]

placemarker

[snopercod]

Oh, another scare campaign to stampede the unintelligent to their doctors for another useless test.

[Fiddlstix]

Oh, another scare campaign to stampede the unintelligent to their doctors for another useless test.

Agreed.

[uncbob]

Oh, another scare campaign to stampede the unintelligent to their doctors for another useless test.

How about offering some data to back up your statement

[pacpam]

Husband had okey Cholestrol test but high CRP so Dr. wanted him on cholestrol lowering drugs for rest of life. Only 50% of high Cholestrolers have consequences so didn't make sense. Did research, found CRP was indication of chronic inflamation. Found he had gengivitis. Not on meds and doing great. Bottom line for me - solve the problem, don't just medicate to mask it.

[tubebender]

I can see this might help prevent heart disease but How can this therapy benefit a person with a severely damaged heart.

[boycott]

ping

[CaptainK]

Is a CRP check done through a blood test?

[goodnesswins]

See Post 10.....CRP is an indication of "inflammation." Need to find that inflammation and deal with it, and personally, I do NOT believe STATINS are the way to do that. In other words, I don't agree with THIS therapy at all.....especially for someone with a severly damaged heart......UNLESS they are too lazy to do what it takes to find out what's really wrong....like...maybe DIET?

[goodnesswins]

YES, CRP is done through a blood check.

[Phyto Chems]

VERY GOOD. Get to the Root Cause, and not Symptom management that is all the AMA wants to do --- ie: SELL DRUGS.

[tubebender]

I just had lab workup as follow up to bypass surgery in July. Will I find CPR numbers on the report?

[goodnesswins]

NOT unless it was ordered.....some docs are "with it" and a lot more are not. ASK your doctor!!! And if he says NO, you don't need it....find another doctor. BACKGROUND: I was recently diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis ....my CRP was negligible one year ago....less than pt. 1.....when it was checked in October it was 1.7.....I have SOME kind of inflammation problem going on, obviously.....since it increased by 17 times.....(It's now back down, or was recently, although I'm still fighting some kind of inflammation or something.)

[St. Johann Tetzel]

Put everybody with high CRP on doxycycline or similar benign anti-biotics. Some docs advocate this for BOTH rheumatoid arthritis as well as heart disease, believing that certain microbacteria cause the inflammation in joints as well as arteries:

Google search: chlamydia heart disease CRP

[PGalt]

Interesting post. Thanks for the ping;comments.