CRP and major depressive disorder: Despite women reporting more somatic symptoms and higher vulnerability to inflammation’s effects than men did, the connection between stress-related depressive conditions and low-grade inflammation exhibited more consistent prevalence in men than in women (Bekhbat and Neigh, 2018), and interestingly, C-reactive protein, a depression-related inflammatory biomarker, is exclusively associated with depression in men, not women (Bekhbat and Neigh, 2018).