Relation between C-reactive protein, treadmill exercise testing, and inducible myocardial ischemia.
This study examined the relation between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP), exercise-induced myocardial ischemia, and exercise tolerance in 288 stable patients who underwent maximal treadmill stress testing. CRP was correlated with peak exercise workload, which was consistent with the long-term predictive value of peak workload and CRP for outcome events. There was no correlation of high-sensitivity CRP with stress-induced ischemia, which is consistent with a lack of correlation between CRP and the degree of chronic luminal coronary arterial narrowing.
Department of Cardiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion-IIT, Haifa, Israel.
Jeryes
J
Shehadeh
Basil S
BS
Lewis
Giora
G
Weisz
Miriam
M
David
Tamar
T
Ashkenazi
David A
DA
Halon
D000368:Aged; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000378:metabolism*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D017079:Exercise Tolerance / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
D002097:C-Reactive Protein