C-reactive protein levels and risk of stroke and its subtype in Japanese: The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS)

Epidemiological studies have shown high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) to predict cardiovascular disease. However, there are only limited studies on the effects of hs-CRP levels on risk of stroke especially stroke subtypes. We examined associations of hs-CRP levels with risks of total stroke and its subtypes.A prospective nested case-control study of Japanese 40-85 years of age was conducted using frozen serum samples collected from...