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• CRP is a protein found in the blood. It is a marker for inflammation, meaning its presence indicates a heightened state of inflammation in the body. Inflammation is a normal response to many physical states including fever, injury and infection, and is now believed to play a role in the initiation and progression of cardiovascular disease.
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• Its measurement in the blood can be used to detect or grade inflammation.
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• a substance in the blood which may predict the risk of atherosclerosis.
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• (CRP) a globulin that forms a precipitate with the somatic C-polysaccharide of the pneumococcus in vitro; the most predominant of the acute phase proteins.
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• is an inflammatory marker - a protein that the body releases in response to inflammation. Thus, elevated levels of CRP in the blood mean that there is inflammation somewhere in the body. CRP is not normally present in the blood of a healthy patient. CRP levels can increase by as much as 1000-times with inflammation. Conditions that commonly lead to marked changes in CRP include infection, trauma, surgery, burns, inflammatory conditions, and advanced cancer. ...
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• This blood test is used as an indicator of acute inflammation. C-reactive protein is a protein of the pentraxin family, produced by the liver during periods of inflammation and detectable in serum in various disease conditions particularly during the acute phase of immune response.
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• A protein produced by the liver. An acute-phase reactant whose quantity serves as a guide to the presence and severity of inflammation.
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• a substance produced by the liver that is only present during acute inflammation; a test often used in the diagnosis of RA and other inflammatory diseases.
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• A blood protein. Raised levels are found in inflammation such as infections.
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• a byproduct of inflammation; a globulin that is found in the blood in some cases of acute inflammation
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• C-reactive protein (CRP) is a plasma protein, an acute phase protein produced by the liver.
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