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Inflammation predicts 25% higher mortality
- brandonb 1y agoThis study followed 5,294 people for 20 years. People in the highest third of inflammation (hs-CRP > 5) had 32% higher chance of heart disease and 25% higher mortality from any cause. Inflammation was a predictor even when you take cholesterol, blood pressure, BMI, etc into account. (The researchers trained various models to test this.) Inflammation is pretty easy to measure in a blood test. Lots of places online: https://www.empirical.health/product/comprehensive-health-panel https://www.empirical.health/product/comprehensive-health-pa...
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- hinkley 1y agoLuckily I can only be 100% dead.
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- duffpkg 1y agoThis headline is heavily editorialized and does not correspond with the title or findings of the study linked.
- brandonb 1y agoThe paper's original title is 66 characters too long for HN. The "25% higher mortality" comes from the all-cause mortality result in "Findings", which is one of the main results of the paper. The paper expresses it as a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.25 [1.10–1.42]. Hazard ratios are standard in medical research, but I wanted to summarize the main result without jargon.