Participants with a higher TyG index tended to be older, men, less educated, have higher income, more current smokers and alcohol drinkers, a higher prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, take more antihypertensive, antidiabetic, and lipid-lowering drugs, have higher SBP, DBP, FBG, TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C, and hs-CRP levels compared with participants in quartile 1 group. The gene discussed is CRP; the disease is metabolic syndrome.