“…In 2003, the AHA/CDC panel recommended a significant need to study ethnic differences in CRP concentrations (Doran, Zhu, & Muennig, 2013;Nazmi & Victora, 2007). Based on population-based studies, most white individuals had the lowest CRP concentrations, but African-Americans, South Asians, and Hispanics showed the highest concentrations (Fonseca & Izar, 2016;Ford et al, 2003;Nazmi & Victora, 2007). The level of CRP in African-Americans was higher than that in white individuals (median, 3.0 vs. 2.3 mg/L; p < 0.001), whereas white women, African American women, and black men, all had higher CRP levels in comparison with white men, and the highest levels were observed among black women.…”