[18] Povoa, et al. studied 891 intensive care unit patients with community-acquired sepsis, observing a mean hospital admission CRP level of 20.1±13.9 mg/dL and finding association between rates of CRP decline and hospital survival. [13] In contrast, our findings are based upon levels determined at a stable phase of health using a high-sensitivity CRP assay, which detects levels as low as 0.04 mg/L. In addition, we focused upon the association between baseline hsCRP levels and risk of future sepsis events – not the acute course of illness. This evidence concerns the gene CRP and Sepsis.