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Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology (2008) 4, 122-123
doi:10.1038/ncprheum0731  
Received 6 December 2007 | Accepted 7 December 2007 | Published online: 22 January 2008

Do high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels help predict risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with osteoarthritis?

Anisur Rahman

Correspondence Centre for Rheumatology Research, Room 331, Windeyer Institute, 46 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JF, UK

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This article has no abstract so we have provided the first paragraph of the full text.

This article by Kraus et al. describes a substudy of the Johnson County Osteoarthritis Project, a population-based study of the epidemiology and progression of osteoarthritis in rural North Carolina.1 The substudy focuses on the levels of hsCRP in the participants' sera using a high-sensitivity assay. The natural logarithm of ln-hsCRP levels was used in the statistical analysis.

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