CRP and Hypertension: According to Börnhorst et al. [10] and based on the patterns derived above, multivariate mixed-effects models were used to assess the age-dependent associations of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors as well as C-reactive protein (CRP), with the log-transformed probabilities of developing abdominal obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, or several metabolic disturbances relative to the probability of staying metabolically healthy, with the latter serving as the reference group.