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December 1, 2009BMC Public HealthOpen Access

All five definitions of metabolic syndrome were significantly associated with microalbuminuria, elevated hs-CRP, and arterial stiffness in women, whereas in men, only the WHO definition was significantly associated with arterial stiffness (OR: 2.75, 95% CI: 1.22-6.19).

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Why the study?

How do five different definitions of metabolic syndrome compare in their agreement and association with cardiovascular risk factors in a Taiwanese population?

Population

1305 subjects aged 40 years and over in Taiwan

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

CLCheng‐Chieh LinCLChiu-Shong LiuCLChia-Ing Li

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Overview

MetS definitions associate more strongly with CV markers in women; leaves open sex-specific predictive utility in Taiwanese adults.

Structured PICO

How do five different definitions of metabolic syndrome compare in their agreement and association with cardiovascular risk factors in a Taiwanese population?

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Population
1305 subjects aged 40 years and over in Taiwan
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Intervention
Metabolic syndrome defined by five criteria (NCEP, IDF, AHA/NHLBI, WHO, EGIR)
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Outcome
Agreement among five definitions of metabolic syndrome and their association with cardiovascular risk factors (microalbuminuria, elevated hs-CRP, arterial stiffness)surrogate

The five common definitions of metabolic syndrome show substantial agreement but perform better in predicting cardiovascular risk factors in women than in men in a Taiwanese population.

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Lin et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a760ca0fa1990f79e613b36https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-484
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