The Relationship Between Blood Pressure and C-Reactive Protein in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
Susan G. Lakoski, MD, MS*,*,
Mary Cushman, MD, MSc ,
Walter Palmas, MD, MS ,
Roger Blumenthal, MD, FACC||,
Ralph B. D’Agostino, Jr, PhD and
David M. Herrington, MD, MHS, FACC*
* Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
|| Ciccarone Preventive Cardiology Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Figure 1 Adjusted levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) by blood pressure category. Adjusted for age, gender, site, body mass index, low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, estrogen therapy, and aspirin.
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Figure 2 Adjusted differences in C-reactive protein (CRP) levels by hypertension category in women and men. Adjusted for age, site, body mass index, low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, estrogen therapy, and aspirin. Open bars = normal; solid bars = hypertension.
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Figure 3 Adjusted C-reactive protein (CRP) levels by blood pressure category stratified by ethnicity. Adjusted for age, gender, body mass index, low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, estrogen therapy, and aspirin. Diamonds = Caucasian; squares = Chinese; triangles = Hispanic; circles = African American.
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