Research Article

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 5

Participants grouped by the occurrence of diseases in their parents. Median of hsCRP levels (mg/L) and participants numbers of each group were shown ). Damascus, Syria, April 2016.

Occurrence of diseases in participant’s parentsMedian of hsCRP levels mg/L
HypertensionDyslipidemiaCVDDiabetes type 2One disease at least

None0.51 (68)0.50 (75)0.51 (86)0.52 (83)0.52 (51)
Mother only0.55 (13)0.55 (11)1.77 (1)0.27 (8)0.45 (22)
Father only0.51 (13)0.37 (13)0.35 (13)0.35 (9)0.48 (24)
Both0.45 (7)1.64 (2)2.37 (1)1.36 (1)0.95 (14)
One of the parents at least0.51 (33)0.53 (26)1.19 (15)0.36 (18)0.48 (50)

Cardiovascular diseases.