Indeed, studies showed a positive relationship between obesity, inflammatory C-reactive protein (Visser et al., 1999), and oxidized LDL (ox-LDL) (Van Guilder et al., 2006). Moreover, we showed that ox-LDL was associated with the incidence of the metabolic
syndrome and several of its components, especially visceral obesity (Holvoet et al., 2004, 2008).