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We assessed the relationship with age of inflammatory markers, representing (1) systemic (C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, and serum amyloid-A) and (2) vascular (lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A\n              <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n              and pentraxin-3) inflammation.\n            <\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods and Results\u2014<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>\n              We determined lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A\n              <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n              mass and activity, C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, serum amyloid-A, and pentraxin-3 levels and other cardiovascular disease risk factors in 336 whites and 224 African Americans. Levels of systemic inflammatory markers increased significantly with age in both ethnic groups (\n              <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              &lt;0.05 for all), whereas trend patterns of vascular inflammatory markers did not change significantly with age for either group. In multivariate regression models adjusting for confounding variables, age remained independently associated with a composite\n              <jats:italic>Z<\/jats:italic>\n              score for systemic but not vascular inflammation (\u03b2=0.250,\n              <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              &lt;0.001, and \u03b2=0.276,\n              <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              &lt;0.001, for whites and African Americans, respectively).\n            <\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion\u2014<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>We report an increase in the systemic but not vascular inflammatory burden with age. Levels of both categories of inflammatory markers with age were similar across ethnicity after adjustment for confounders. 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