To date, biomedical risk factors such as obesity (Franks et al., 2010), cholesterol (Burger et al., 2024), C-reactive protein (Prasad, 2024), blood-pressure level (Ettehad et al., 2016), and metabolic syndrome (MetS) (Kurniawan, 2024), as well as lifestyle (e.g., physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet) and psychological variables (Bogle et al., 2016; Carola et al., 2024; Emdin et al., 2016; Rozanski, 2014) have been studied extensively. The gene discussed is CRP; the disease is metabolic syndrome.