CRP and atherosclerosis: CRP is widely regarded as the most useful biomarker for assessing atherosclerotic diseases, not only because of its ease and reliability of measurement, its wide and dynamic range of concentrations, and its remarkable stability but also because its degree of elevation in the blood correlates significantly with the level of risk for future adverse cardiovascular events associated with advanced atherosclerosis, such as myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke [27, 30].