CRP and cardiovascular disorder: Full texts of these 54 remained articles were reviewed, and according to our inclusion and exclusion criteria, 45 articles were omitted due to the following reasons: review papers (n = 14), Chinese language (n = 9), working on cardiovascular diseases (n = 8), did not report CRP as an outcome (n = 5), duplicated data (n = 4), retrospective cohort (n = 3), and conference report (n = 2).