CRP and obesity due to melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency: Overall, these studies found that wholegrain dietary intake was associated with lower levels of CRP in a female cohort with obesity (Hajihashemi et al., 2014) and in healthy males and females (Hur and Reicks, 2012) as well as IL-17F in males and females from cohorts with and without underlying pathologies (Han et al., 2015).