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Podcast: Dr. Howard Smith Reports
Episode: ACC: New Screening Blood Test
Description: Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPa5RHQADaY/Just out. The American College of Cardiology is urging one and all adults and their medical teams to include the test for general body and cardiovascularinflammation in the annual testing battery. That test is the high sensitivity C-Reactive Protein or hsCRP. The hsCRP test measures low grade body inflammation. Elevated test numbers predict the untimely occurrence of heart attacks, strokes, and death due to cardiovascular disease as predictably as bad cholesterol levels even if your cholesterol numbers are excel...