CRP and asthma: Comparing asthma group who did not have MS and asthma group with MS, there were significant differences between the 2 groups regarding waist circumference (P value= 0.0158), CRP (P value =0.025), DBP (P value =0.0157), triglycerides (P value = 0.0264), and fasting blood glucose (P value <0.0001) (Table 2).