Weighing the proof that high CRP is a riskfactor for heart disease that should be treated will have to wait until the study's results are analyzed and presented.
But a more recent study of 12, 000 American men and women found that high Lp-PLA2 levels were an independent heart-disease riskfactor mainly in those patients with relatively low cholesterol levels.
This instrument monitors high-energy radiation considered to be a health risk to astronauts and a factor in whether microbes could survive on Mars' surface.
New research conducted by otolaryngologists at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit finds that snoring is a bigger riskfactor for stroke and heart attack than smoking, being overweight, or high cholesterol.
At least 21 London tower blocks rated as a high fire risk by local councils were not visited by firefighters last year - despite flawed visits being a factor in the fatal Lakanal House fire.
Dr Iacopino said high cholesterol, or lipid, levels, rather than the way the body deals with glucose, was the riskfactor for people who are already diabetic developing periodontal disease.