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...choice proved fortunate. Just this summer, Ridker's group published the results of its landmark studies. As expected, patients with high CRP levels were at significantly higher risk of developing a heart attack. Even more intriguing, Ridker's team found that those with low cholesterol but high CRP were just as likely to have a heart attack as those with high cholesterol and low CRP. Ridker even showed that statins, the most popular cholesterol-lowering drugs, reduce CRP levels by equal amounts--about 13%--in both groups, suggesting that the medications pack a double wallop, working as both cholesterol-lowering...
...tested lately? Maybe you should, even if you've never heard of it. Its presence indicates inflamed arteries, and researchers report that it may be more strongly linked to heart attacks than cholesterol. A study of 28,000 healthy women found that those with high blood levels of hs-CRP (as your doctor calls it) are 4 1/2 times as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke even if their cholesterol count is normal. The test for hs-CRP is inexpensive and has been approved for use since late last year...
Ithe school should not have included among its list of appointments four new faculty members who joined the school when it merged with the City and Regional Planning (CRP) program last year. Weal argues that CRP's superior record in affirmative action" stems from its "largely independent" hiring...
...categorizing hirings like those in the CRP solely as "new appointments" in the progress report, Grossman said, Jackson "could make you feel that the efforts (of the K-School) were a little more spectacular than they were...
Phyllis Keller, associate dean of the Faculty for academic planning, recently finished revising the CRP report (the original "took too many words to say things," she says), and she expects the council to approve it at an early meeting. Because of the council's fundamental agreement with the CRP's ideas, council members expect quick approval as well. The proposal "went through so many damn drafts that my suspicion is they'll do it straight off," Edward L. Pattullo, a member of the CRP, says, adding, "It was simply a matter of style...