Biology of GlycA (IMAGE)

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Biology of GlycA

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This schematic summarizes an investigation of the biology of GlycA, a known biomarker for short-term mortality. They reveal GlycA's long-term behavior in apparently healthy patients: it is stable for >10 years and associated with chronic low-grade inflammation. Accordingly, GlycA predicts death from infection up to 14 years in the future.

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Ritchie et al./<i>Cell Systems</i> 2015

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