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Tag: C-reactive protein

David Furman Interview
The longevity field hasn’t been very good at naming things, but one notable exception is “inflammaging”: the low-grade chronic inflammation that correlates with aging. Recognition has been growing that inflammation, the ubiquitous reaction of the immune system to various stressors, is a major driver of many age-related diseases and possibly one of the limiting factors...
Manhattan plot
Nature Communications has recently published a paper discussing the genetic sources of C-reactive protein, a well-known biomarker of chronic inflammation. An extremely broad study with a wide variety of genes Pulling genomic data from 427,367 participants in the UK Biobank and 148,164 people from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE)...

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