CRP and Hypertension: However, the higher neutrophil group was only positively and independently significantly associated with the smoker, less age, higher BMI, co-morbidity of DM, and higher levels of uric acid, hs-CRP, and hemoglobin after multivariate analysis, whereas male gender, co-morbidity of hypertension, levels of eGFR, calcium, phosphate, and proteinuria lost significance (Table 9).