CRP and aortic valve stenosis: Thus, together with the fact that the previous studies have analyzed the effect of the rs1205 on plasma CRP concentrations in population- or healthy individuals-based cohorts [13,14,15] and that we did it in a highly specific selection of AS subjects, it made an alternative hypothesis also possible, i.e., that being completely opposite to that reported for (at least in a huge majority) AS-unaffected subjects the effect observed by us in AS patients is disease-specific.