All but six had an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) greater than 40 mm/1st hour and/or a C-reactive protein (CRP) greater than 10 mg/L at the time of disease diagnosis of LV-GCA and fulfilled the 2012 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology provisional classification criteria for PMR [15]. This evidence concerns the gene CRP and temporal arteritis.