High Sensitive C - Reactive Protein Levels in Pre and Post Menopausal Healthy Women in Kirkuk City-Iraq

A high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) is one of the acute phase proteins which remarkably increased in systemic inflammation and considered to be an independent risk factor for Cardio Vascular Diseases (CVD). The present study was conducted to evaluate the level of (hs-CRP) in pre and post menopausal women. Two study groups were enrolled in the present study .The first group included (100) samples from healthy pre menopausal woman of age ranged (27-45)years. The second group included (90) samples taken from healthy postmenopausal women their age ranged (51-67)years .The following Kit from (i-CHRomTM hs CRP-25) was used as an immunoassay pattern to evaluate hs-CRP from Boditech MedIne . The results of the present study showed a significant differences between the two groups under study , in which the level of hsCRP in pre-was( 1.81_+1.02) with a significant increase (p<0.05) in post menopausal women (4.02+_1.67mg/L).This study concludes that there is approximately 3 fold significant increase in hs-CRP levels in post menopausal Iraqi's women.