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Sometimes Older Is Better
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By Michael Brady
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Health Insider: Hypertension July 13, 2009
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Along with risk factors like high cholesterol and smoking, blood pressure stands out as an important indicator to assess your risk of heart attack and stroke. But a significant number of people who appear to be healthy according to all of these indicators still end up experiencing a major cardiovascular episode.
To calculate risk in these mystery patients, scientists have researched a flurry of new biomarkers in the hopes of finding more accurate warning signals of cardiovascular disease—C-reactive protein (CRP) is one you may have heard of. However, results from a recent study suggest that these newer predictors aren't always better. Read more about biomarkers for heart attack and stroke (exit site, Newswise).
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