C-reactive protein levels in patients at cardiovascular risk: EURIKA study

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Research Article

Ogün Sazova¹  Claudio Borghi²  Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo³  José R Banegas⁴  Guy De Backer⁵  Eliseo Guallar⁶  Carine Roy⁷  Florence Tubach⁸  Jean Dallongeville⁹  Jesús Medina^1,10  Joep Perk^1,11  Philippe Gabriel Steg^1,12  Julian PJ Halcox^1,13 

[1] AstraZeneca Global Medical Affairs, London, UK;Department of Internal Medicine, Ageing and Clinical Nephrology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain;Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain;Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain;Department of Public Health, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium;Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine and Welch Center of Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics, National Center for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain;INSERM CIE 801 and Epidemiology and Clinical Research Department, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France;INSERM CIE 801 and Epidemiology and Clinical Research Department, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France;Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France;Inserm U744, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France;Medical Evidence Centre, Global Medical Affairs, AstraZeneca Farmacéutica Spain, Madrid, Spain;School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden;Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France;Inserm U698, Paris, France;Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France;Wales Heart Research Institute, Cardiff University, Heath Park, CF14 4XN, Cardiff, UK;Swansea University College of Medicine, Swansea, UK;

关键词: C-reactive protein;    Cardiovascular disease;    Epidemiology;    Risk factors/global assessment;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2261-14-25

 received in 2013-06-28, accepted in 2014-02-14,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundElevated C-reactive protein (CRP) levels are associated with high cardiovascular risk, and might identify patients who could benefit from more carefully adapted risk factor management. We have assessed the prevalence of elevated CRP levels in patients with one or more traditional cardiovascular risk factors.MethodsData were analysed from the European Study on Cardiovascular Risk Prevention and Management in Usual Daily Practice (EURIKA, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00882336), which included patients (aged ≥50 years) from 12 European countries with at least one traditional cardiovascular risk factor but no history of cardiovascular disease. Analysis was also carried out on the subset of patients without diabetes mellitus who were not receiving statin therapy.ResultsIn the overall population, CRP levels were positively correlated with body mass index and glycated haemoglobin levels, and were negatively correlated with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels. CRP levels were also higher in women, those at higher traditionally estimated cardiovascular risk and those with greater numbers of metabolic syndrome markers. Among patients without diabetes mellitus who were not receiving statin therapy, approximately 30% had CRP levels ≥3 mg/L, and approximately 50% had CRP levels ≥2 mg/L, including those at intermediate levels of traditionally estimated cardiovascular risk.ConclusionsCRP levels are elevated in a large proportion of patients with at least one cardiovascular risk factor, without diabetes mellitus who are not receiving statin therapy, suggesting a higher level of cardiovascular risk than predicted according to conventional risk estimation systems.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00882336

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