ALB and metabolic syndrome: Metabolic syndrome is a very complex disease state, and there are many studies have shown that moderately elevated serum ferritin levels are associated with an increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome or some of its components, such as high blood pressure.[48–52] In our study, we also found that total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, gyrated hemoglobin and albumin also showed an ascending trend with increasing serum ferritin levels.