Inflammation predicts 25% higher mortality (thelancet.com)

This study followed 5,294 people for 20 years. People in the highest third of inflammation (hs-CRP > 5) had 32% higher chance of heart disease and 25% higher mortality from any cause.

Inflammation was a predictor even when you take cholesterol, blood pressure, BMI, etc into account. (The researchers trained various models to test this.)

Inflammation is pretty easy to measure in a blood test. Lots of places online: https://www.empirical.health/product/comprehensive-health-pa...

Luckily I can only be 100% dead.

This headline is heavily editorialized and does not correspond with the title or findings of the study linked.