C-Reactive Protein (CRP) has been used for many years for diagnosis of tissue injury, infection, malignancy or inflammation.
CRP is also an independent risk factor for cardiovascular risk.
Traditional risk factors for coronary heart disease (cholesterol and blood pressure) fail to identify nearly 50% of individuals who will eventually have a heart attack.
Recent evidence shows that testing apparently healthy adults using high sensitive CRP (HsCRP) indicates that this is a strong independent risk factor for the subsequent development of stroke, myocardial infarction and peripheral/ vascular disease. HsCRP has shown to predict future arteriosclerotic events in several prospective studies. It also adds to the predictive value of lipid testing alone and acts as a marker for existing arterial disease.
A specially labelled blood sample collection kit containing everything needed by a nurse or doctor to take the blood sample. The kit will be unique and coded specifically to you.
A Medical History & Lifestyle questionnaire is included with this test. It covers important areas such as illness, injuries, medical conditions, medication, family health history and much more.
The Medical History & Lifestyle questionnaire provides us with vital information which can affect how your results are interpreted and what advice you receive.
You will have secure online access to your medical reports and results held on our secure web servers. If required, we will also send you a hard copy by post.
Our web servers are secure and protected by the latest SSL certificate. The 128bit SSL encryption assures that information is kept private between our web servers and your web browser.
Phlebotomy
