CRP and sleep apnea syndrome: In subsequent analyses, where we used an additive summary SDB clustering score as a measure of the cooccurrence of these SDB markers, we found that higher SDB clustering score was associated with higher odds of prediabetes, independent of age, gender, race-ethnicity, education, smoking, current alcohol consumption, moderate physical activity, body mass index, depression, systolic blood pressure, C-reactive protein, and total cholesterol.