CRP and heart failure: In the Malmö Diet and Cancer study, the association between RDW and fatal coronary events remained unchanged after addition of leukocyte count to the multivariable analyses.7Similarly, the association between RDW and heart failure did not change after adjustments for CRP in a large prospective study,30and a 1% increment in RDW yielded equal risk of all-cause mortality independent of hs-CRP levels.31