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Ethnic variation in C-reactive protein: UK resident Indo-Asians compared with Caucasians.
Journal of cardiovascular risk - 1 Jun 2002
Chatha K, Anderson N R, Gama R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The increased prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) in UK resident Indo-Asians is unexplained by the traditional cardiovascular risk factors of dyslipidaemia, hypertension, smoking and diabetes mellitus. C-reactive protein (CRP) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of CHD but the data on ethnic variation in CRP is conflicting. We therefore investigated whether CRP could help explain the...
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