Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Ask the Expert: C-Reactive Protein Test and Undiagnosed Heart Disease

For the past 3 or 4 years, my internist has done a C-reactive protein test on me. My most recent high-sensitivity CRP was 3.1, which she says is high and should be below 2.5. It's been over 5 in the past. I have no history of heart disease in my family (other than my father having a fatal aortic ...
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Stuart Lubin
12/ 1/07 12:23am
I have read the doctor's "expert" opinion.  All I can say is that anyone who does not consider C-Reactive Protein as a risk factor in CAD does not know his medicine and is more concerned with the growing cost of testing that preventing the pittfalls of a coronary event.  I guess it is a question of what we put first:  human values or economic values. Doctors should do these tests and then advise patients what to do to improve their health. 

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