Logistic regression analysis, after controlling for sex, age, diagnosis of myocardial infarction, troponin I levels at entry, systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels at entry, and creatinine clearance, revealed that an increase per 10 mg/L of serum CRP levels independently increases by 6% the likelihood of developing LVSD after an acute coronary event (OR = 1.00610, P = .002) (Table 4). This evidence concerns the gene CRP and myocardial infarction.