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February 18, 2013Journal of Internal MedicineOpen Access

Identifying cardiovascular disease risk and outcome: use of the plasma triglyceride/high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration ratio versus metabolic syndrome criteria

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Abstract

An elevated TG/HDL-C ratio appears to be just as effective as the MetS diagnosis in predicting the development of CVD.

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Salazar et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8cdaaf39dfae3cad17dd3 https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.12036

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