CRP and heart failure: Indeed, in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients CRP levels predicted heart failure and cardiovascular mortality the year after the CV event (70), and in patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, in-hospital mortality was four times higher in patients with a CRP > 10 mg/L compared to patients with <3 mg/L CRP levels, and this association persisted at the long term (71).