Diabetes: High CRP is just a part of the risk-indicators puzzle

Is this C Reactive Protein? If yes, why don't doctors request this along with cholesterol to give them a better indication of those at high risk for cardiovasular disease?

It's a very expensive lab test that the insurance companies are not always real happy to pay for, since the medical community has not agreed 100% what the results mean or how to use the information those results offer.

Also, it's often possible to judge who's going to come in with a high C Reactive Protein number, just by looking at them and knowing their medical history-- chronic recalcitrant obesity, middle aged or older, sedentary, type 2 diabetes, etc. IOW, a high CRP is just a part of the risk-indicators puzzle, not the whole story, and not all docs and researchers agree about what importance it plays. If you have the test and end up with a high result, the advice would be the same as it would be if no one knew the number-- get down to a normal weight, exercise, aggressively control blood sugar and blood pressure, come off as many meds as possible. All of us are certainly free to ask our docs if an inflammatory test (I think there are two different ones, but I forget the name of the other) would be a good idea.