OXT and metabolic syndrome: Surprisingly, individuals diagnosed with MetS in Guoyue's study [19] had a mean BMI of 26.76 kg/m2, which is less than in our study (32.45); 20/29 of students with metabolic syndrome were obese (having a BMI > 30 kg/m2) in our study; this is about 68.97% of students diagnosed with MetS; consequently, this suggests that both ethnic group and BMI affect the correlation of oxytocin and metabolic syndrome.