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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Sydney, Australia.
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Grand Magnate
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Sydney, Australia.
Posts: 3,093
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Mat, I know about complement proteins C3 and C4 in a research but not clinical context.
They are both on the list of acute-phase response proteins, same as CRP - proteins whose levels are elevated in an acute or chronic infection.
Often a chronic infection has an inflammatory aspect so maybe the possible inflammatory aspect (not the same as an infection) of your primary Sjogren's might explain your elevated C3 and C4 levels - your CRP level is also high(?).
This fits with the inflammatory aspect of OA - C3 and C4 could be elevated in it but PubMed does not shed any light on this.
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