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Would high cortisol cause a high crp or would elevated crp cause high cortisol in blood tests?
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No to both: Spot cortisol levels are of limited usefulness. Nobody really knows what to make of C-reactive protein except in a few special cases anyway.
Answered 5/31/2016
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