CRP and hypertensive disorder: Compared to patients with postprandial type hyperglycemia, patients with fasting type hyperglycemia not only had significantly higher baseline BMI, but they also had higher serum triglyceride levels and a non-significant tendency toward higher prevalence of hypertension, i.e., two components of the metabolic or insulin resistance syndrome [10] In accordance with this, fasting type hyperglycemia patients also exhibited greater degree of low-grade inflammation (higher hs-CRP values) known to be associated with insulin resistance [11].