CRP and metabolic syndrome: With an increasing number of MetS components present, median hs-CRP increased from 1.5 mg/L (IQR 0.9-2.9) to 1.9 (IQR 1.1-3.5), 2.1 (IQR 1.1-4.0), 2.4 (IQR 1.5-4.5) and 2.2 mg/L (IQR 1.4-4.4) in the groups with respectively one (n = 234), two (n = 514), three (n = 301), four (n = 103) and five (n = 13) components (p for trend < 0.001).