High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
Open Access
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Diabetes Association in Diabetes Care
- Vol. 29 (2), 329-333
- https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.29.02.06.dc05-1700
Abstract
OBJECTIVE—To investigate in a follow-up study whether high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) predicts coronary heart disease (CHD) events in subjects with type 2 diabetes.Keywords
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