Testing for Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risk

Cholesterol has had the spotlight in heart disease for fifty years, but a quieter story has been building alongside it: the immune system's slow, low-level activation that never quite switches off. This chronic low-grade inflammation is now understood to drive atherosclerosis in its own right, independent of cholesterol, and it can be measured with a routine blood test. This article explains which markers are used, what the numbers mean for cardiovascular risk, and why one result should never be read in isolation.

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