Health and Nutrition Letter

New Blood Test For Heart-Disease Risk May Be As Important As Cholesterol Screening

January 2003

Abstract

You probably know by heart that your total cholesterol should be under 200 and your “bad” LDL-cholesterol, less than 130. Now it looks like there may well be another test name and number you’ll want to remember: a CRP under 3.

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