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...test his hunch, Ridker needed a simple blood test that could serve as a marker for chronic inflammation. He settled on Creactive protein (CRP), a molecule produced by the liver in response to an inflammatory signal. During an acute illness, like a severe bacterial infection, levels of CRP quickly shoot from less than 10 mg/L to 1,000 mg/L or more. But Ridker was more interested in the low levels of CRP - less than 10 mg/L - that he found in otherwise healthy people and that indicated only a slightly elevated inflammation level. Indeed, the difference between normal and elevated...
...study released by the Civil Rights Project (CRP) at Harvard argues that 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education advances made through school and residential desegregation efforts are being reversed...
Gary Orfield, co-founder and co-director of the CRP and professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education authored “Brown at 50: King’s Dream or the Plessy Nightmare,” which was released to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr.’s 75th birthday...
Over the past five years, researchers have shown that inflammation is at least as important as high cholesterol levels in causing heart disease. (High levels in the blood of certain molecules, such as C-reactive protein (CRP), indicate a runaway inflammatory process and are better predictors of heart attacks than cholesterol.) Could the same be true for diabetes? "In 2001, when we published our first paper on inflammation and diabetes, everybody thought we were just wrong," recalls Dr. Paul Ridker, a cardiologist at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. "Now there are half a dozen studies confirming that...
...think he surprised everyone there about how strongly he felt” about affirmative action, CRP Co-Director Gary A. Orfield said...