Saline County, Kansas. Saline County (standard abbreviation: SA) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 55,606. The largest city and county seat is Salina.
Background. In 1994, a consensus group of pain medicine experts gathered by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) agreed on diagnostic criteria for reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and causalgia, and renamed them complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) types I and II, respectively.
Sedimentation rate is most commonly used to diagnose and monitor auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus that typically cause severe inflammation. CRP, on the other hand, is a very useful test for the lower levels of chronic inflammation that can promote heart disease and diabetes. In particular, the relationship between elevated CRP and heart disease (including heart attack) has been strongly established.