High sensitivity C-Reactive Protein is a Significant Predictor for Hypertension and Obesity in Iraqi Postmenopausal Women

Background: several new inflammatory markers have emerged as strong predictors of cardiovascular disease in healthy and non-healthy subjects, one of these markers is hs-CRP, which has been proposed as independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and it is positively associated with body weig...

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Main Authors: Waleed Kh. Hussein, Ansam A. Al-Bayatti, Esam N. Salman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Medicine University of Baghdad 2009-10-01
Series:مجلة كلية الطب
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Online Access:http://iqjmc.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/19JFacMedBaghdad36/article/view/1137