Medically reviewed by Richard N. Fogoros, MD Key Takeaways High C-reactive protein (CRP) levels mean there is inflammation in your body. High CRP levels can signal conditions like heart disease, ...

In their paper, Bogaty and colleagues write that considerable intraindividual variability in CRP levels has been found in healthy individuals, but it was unknown whether such variability extended to ...

An inflamed arterial wall tips the balance toward a plaque rupture-the kind of event that can trigger a heart attack or stroke in an instant. In parallel, the same lingering inflammation is linked to ...