SAA1 and heart disorder: When analyzed separately with respect to cardiac disease mortality, strong significant associations were found between long term mortality and higher levels of plasma biomarkers of inflammation (hsCRP, SAA, fibrinogen, p for trend ≤ 0.001) and with total leukocytes, neutrophils, monocytes, basophiles (p for trend ≤ 0.003 for all) (Table 7).