High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Soinio, Minna; Marniemi, Jukka; Laakso, Markku; Lehto, Seppo; Rönnemaa, Tapani

doi:10.2337/diacare.29.02.06.dc05-1700

High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

OBJECTIVE—To investigate in a follow-up study whether high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) predicts coronary heart disease (CHD) events in subjects with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—The original study population consisted of 1,059 patients with type 2 diabetes (age 45–64 y…