Inflammation May Signal Stroke Risk in Healthy Men
 (NY, Reuters Health, 4/7/03)

Dr. J. David Curb of the Pacific Health Research Institute in Honolulu, and team, tracked 8,000 Japanese American men who had been tested for C-Reactive Protein (CRP), a marker for inflammation, as part of the Honolulu Heart Program in the late sixties. The researchers found that men who had tested highest for CRP were nearly 4 times more likely to have a stroke within the next 10 to 15 years than those with the lowest CRP levels.