Resumen

PREMOLI, Gloria; VILLARREAL A, Juana  y  GONZALEZ B, Anajulia. Proteina c reactiva y su relacion con la enfermedad periodontal y aterosclerosis. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2008, vol.46, n.1, pp.92-93. ISSN 0001-6365.

The cardiovascular diseases as the atherosclerosis have some relation with the periodontal disease; specially, a great interest about the implication of the inflammatory process. Otherwise, The periodontal disease and the arteriosclerosis is  of high prevalence in many countries is   one of the main problems of public health to world-wide level and constitutes one of the causes of greater morbidity and mortality. The advance in molecular biology has been able to identify different molecules in patients with periodontal diseases with the production of different alterations as in the C-reactive protein. This protein is a   precise marker in detection of inflammatory in the infectious processes with the production of high level of the C-reactive protein, also it is involve in the   proinflammatory effects.  In the last decade it is   catalogued as a factor for the cardiovascular risk by the America Associations of The Heart. This revision is bases on different aspects the C-reactive protein as a marker of inflammatory process with  the periodontal disease and aterosclerosis.

Palabras clave : C-reactive protein; Inflammation; disease Periodontal; Atherosclerosis.