CRP and metabolic syndrome: As shown in Table 4, hs-CRP levels were also significantly higher among individuals with each component of MetS, including central obesity (1.18 vs. 0.73), hypertension (1.01 vs. 0.80), high blood glucose (1.01 vs. 0.82), hypertriglyceridemia (0.96 vs. 0.84), and low HDL cholesterol (1.01 vs. 0.82) (all p < 0.001).