Is hs-CRP the Only “Novel Risk Factor” for Heart Disease?
Besides C-Reactive Protein (CRP), there are other novel risk factors for heart disease such as homosysteine and lipoprotein(a), among others. hs-CRP however is the inflammatory marker with the strongest predictive value for future cardiovascular events, and has been shown to add prognostic information to that obtained from cholesterol screening. In the future, it is possible that other markers of inflammation beyond CRP will be introduced.
