HIGH SENSITIVITY C-REACTIVE PROTEIN AND RISK OF STROKE IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: THE REASONS FOR GEOGRAPHIC AND RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN STROKE (REGARDS) STUDY
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- HIGH SENSITIVITY C-REACTIVE PROTEIN AND RISK OF STROKE IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: THE REASONS FOR GEOGRAPHIC AND RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN STROKE (REGARDS) STUDY
- author
- Dawood, Farah
- abstract
- Background and Purpose- High sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), a marker of systemic inflammation, is a predictor of cardiovascular events in the general population. We compared the association between hs-CRP level and subsequent stroke events in in individuals with and without atrial fibrillation (AF) in the REGARDS study.
- subject
- Atrial fibrillation
- biomarkers
- inflammation
- REGARDS
- Stroke
- contributor
- Herrington, David (committee chair)
- Judd, Suzanne (committee member)
- Soliman, Elsayed Z (committee member)
- Yeboah, Joseph (committee member)
- date
- 2015-06-23T08:35:55Z (accessioned)
- 2015-06-23T08:35:55Z (available)
- 2015 (issued)
- degree
- Clinical and Population Translational Sciences (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57159 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- type
- Thesis