CRP and coronary artery disorder: In addition to its importance in understanding the causal role of CRP with CHD, it has also been suggested that determining the association of variation in CRP with CHD may be beneficial in its own right.[20] In a recent review, Hage and Szalai noted the paucity and inconsistencies of studies examining SNPs in CRP with cardiovascular endpoints, but suggested that if it could be established that variants in CRP were robustly associated with CHD events then CRP gene profiling could have clinical utility in disease prediction.[20]