CRP and metabolic syndrome: We emphasize the associations between hs-CRP and the accumulation of traditional cardiometabolic risk factors (β = 0.226; P=0.024; 95% CI = 0.030–0.422), MetS components (β = 0.265; P=0.006; CI 95% = 0.078–0.452), nontraditional cardiometabolic risk factors (β = 0.349; P=0.003; CI 95% = 0.122–0.575), and cardiometabolic risk factors identified in the final regression model presented in Table 4 (β = 0.397; P=0.001; CI 95% = 0.175–0.619) (Figure 1).