After adjustment for known cardiovascular risk factors (age, BMI, alcohol consumption, smoking status, HDLc, HbA1c, triglycerides, AST, and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), lipid lowering medication use, and glucose lowering medication use), the OR and 95% CI for hypertension with each 1 standard deviation (SD) increment in platelet count (5.24 × 104/μL), was 1.47 (1.12, 1.91) among participants with a low CD34-positive cell count and 0.91 (0.71, 1.18) among those with a high CD34-positive cell count. Here, CD34 is linked to Hypertension.