In another study on 188 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy of unspecified aetiology, CRP levels were higher among the 49 patients who died as compared to those alive after a 5-year follow-up; once again, in the absence of rigorous diagnostic work-up for clinically suspected or biopsy proven myocarditis and of multivariable analysis, the role of CRP in this study remains undefined [57]. The gene discussed is CRP; the disease is dilated cardiomyopathy.