CD14 and metabolic syndrome: On the other hand, CD14 tetraspanin had a positive correlation with the number of MetS components (p < 0.001), with both systolic and diastolic blood pressure (p ≤ 0.01), serum glucose (p < 0.001) and triglyceride (p = 0.004) levels, and with the atherogenic index of plasma (p = 0.008) (Table 2).