High-Sensitive C-Reactive Protein Levels in a Group of Syrian University Male Students and Its Associations with Smoking, Physical Activity, Anthropometric Measurements, and Some Hematologic Inflammation Biomarkers

Figure 1

To investigate the effect of the participant’s BMI along with smoking, sports practicing, and the presence of medical history in one of the participant’s parents on hsCRP levels, each group of participants was separated, according to their BMI levels, into two groups. Vertical lines denote the median; horizontal lines represent participant’s group enclosed in interquartile range. Wilcoxon rank sum test of significance difference ( value) was applied between different pairs of groups and only values < 0.05 were shown.