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Patients at risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease are identifiable only up to a point using traditional methods, including the Framingham risk score [1], the European SCORE (Systemic Coronary Risk Evaluation) [2], and the C-reactive protein level [3].
Participants with hospitalized/fatal HF had significantly higher rates of pre-randomization coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) and coronary angioplasties (19-23% of those with HF vs. 13% of those without; P < .001) and other atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) (29-33% of those with HF vs. 23-25% of those without; P < .001).
CHD risk was mutually exclusively categorized as low (0–1 risk factors), moderate (2+ risk factors), or high (CHD, other atherosclerotic diseases, or diabetes).
Thus, C-reactive protein is increasingly described not only as a marker of the inflammatory response, but also as a mediator in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease [2,27].
The large-artery atherosclerotic subtype of ischemic stroke accounted for only 13% of all ischemic strokes in a recent population-based study in Bavaria, Germany [ 75 ] . Similarly, the large-artery atherosclerotic subtype accounted for only 16% of all ischemic strokes in a population-based study in Rochester, Minnesota [ 76 ] . In addition to not being a mandatory intermediate phenotype in the biological process leading to ischemic stroke, carotid atherosclerosis is itself a complex phenotype.
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