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Are Markers of Inflammation More Strongly Associated with Risk for Fatal Than for Nonfatal Vascular Events?
 
 
  Are Markers of Inflammation More Strongly Associated with Risk for Fatal Than for Nonfatal Vascular Events?
 
PLoS Medicine
 
What Do These Findings Mean?
These findings indicate that, at least for the elderly at-risk patients who were included in PROSPER, inflammatory markers are more strongly associated with the risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke than with nonfatal CVD events. These findings need to be confirmed in younger populations and larger studies also need to be done to discover whether the same association holds when fatal heart attacks and fatal strokes are considered separately. Nevertheless, the present findings suggest that inflammation may specifically help to promote the development of serious, potentially fatal CVD and should stimulate improved research into the use of inflammation markers to predict risk of deaths from CVD.
 
 
 
 
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