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ArticleJournal of primary care & community health

Association of Elevated Levels of Inflammatory Marker High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Hypertension.

Sharmila Bisaria, Vittorio Terrigno, Krystal Hunter, Satyajeet Roy

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Article in Journal of primary care & community health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sharmila BisariaCooper Medical School of Rowan University, Cooper University Health Care, Department of Medicine, Camden, New Jersey, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1698-0811
Vittorio TerrignoCooper Medical School of Rowan University, Cooper University Health Care, Department of Medicine, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Krystal HunterCooper Research Institute, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Satyajeet RoyCooper Medical School of Rowan University, Cooper University Health Care, Department of Medicine, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe correlation between inflammation and vascular disease is widely accepted. High levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) have been shown to play a role in the process of endothelial dysfunction. Hypertension is described as an inflammatory vascular disease, and is 1 of the most commonly encountered diseases in the outpatient setting. We studied the association between the elevated high sensitivity-CRP (hs-CRP) level and hypertension, as well as other comorbid conditions.

methodsElectronic medical records of 169 adult patients in our internal medicine office were reviewed for hs-CRP levels, and divided into 2 groups: elevated hs-CRP (≥2 mg/L; n = 110) and normal hs-CRP (<2 mg/L; n = 59). Independent T-Test was used to compare the means of continuous variables between the groups if they were normally distributed. Mann Whitney U-Test was used to compare the continuous variables that were non-parametric. Logistic regression was used to compare the dependent and independent variables.

resultsAmong subjects with elevated hs-CRP, 58.2% had hypertension while 47.5% of subjects with normal hs-CRP levels had hypertension (

conclusionsThere was no statistically significant correlation between hs-CRP level and hypertension. Hs-CRP has statistically significant associations between alcohol use, dementia, white blood cell count, and HDL levels. Promising but not statistically significant correlations were observed between hs-CRP and statin therapy, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, and cerebrovascular disease.

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Coronary Artery DiseaseC-Reactive ProteinHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsHypertensionAdultBiomarkersFemaleHumansMaleBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitorshigh sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP)hypertensioninflammation

Identifiers

PMID33356789
PMCPMC7768830
OpenAlexW3116822369

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