And the waters they prefer to testmay be those of private-equity firms, with which entrepreneurs who made their fortune building companies are often more comfortable.
The connection between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease is by now so well established that inflammatory markers like CRP, while theymay prove useful to test and treat, will not take the place of cholesterol any time soon, says Alan Daugherty, PhD, the director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Kentucky.