December 16, 2003Circulation
Association of the Metabolic Syndrome With History of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Why the study?
Is metabolic syndrome associated with a history of myocardial infarction and stroke in the general population?
Population
10,357 NHANES III subjects
Comparison
Metabolic syndrome vs Absence of metabolic syndrome
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May support metabolic syndrome assessment alongside prior events; leaves open causality and incident prediction in prospective data.
Structured PICO
Is metabolic syndrome associated with a history of myocardial infarction and stroke in the general population?
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Population
10,357 NHANES III subjects
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Intervention
Metabolic syndrome (defined by NCEP-ATP III criteria as ≥3 of 5 conditions: insulin resistance, abdominal obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, low HDL-C, and hypertension)
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Comparator
Absence of metabolic syndrome
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Outcome
History of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and either MI or stroke (MI/stroke)hard clinical
Metabolic syndrome is strongly and consistently associated with a prevalent history of myocardial infarction and stroke.
Cite This Study
Ninomiya et al. (2003) studied this question.