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
Table 4
Participants grouped by alcohol drinking, smoking, or sport habits characteristics. Median of hsCRP levels (mg/L) and participants numbers of each group were shown . Damascus, Syria, April 2016.
Habit
Median of hsCRP levels mg/L
Yes
No
Habit frequencies
Rarely
Monthly
Weekly
Daily
Alcohol drinking
0.41 (5)
0.52 (96)
0.41 (5)
— (0)
— (0)
— (0)
Sport
0.48 (70)
0.68 (31)
0.74 (23)
1.04 (5)
0.47 (19)
0.38 (23)
Sport that need
No club
0.59 (43)
0.81 (22)
1.11 (3)
0.29 (15)
0.40 (3)
Club
0.38 (27)
0.12 (1)
0.59 (2)
0.92 (4)
0.38 (20)
Smoking
0.43 (56)
0.55 (45)
Smoking by tobacco type
Hubble-bubble smoking
0.47 (23)
0.38 (1)
— (0)
0.38 (10)
0.63 (12)
Number of cigarettes per day
Cigarettes
0.37 (30)
0.40 (7)
0.26 (7)
0.33 (11)
1.34 (5)
Both
0.65 (3)
Water pipes, shisha, nargile, and hookah have similar structures in which the smoke passes through water, causing a bubbling sound.
