Population
9,462 community-based subjects aged ≥30 years without coronary heart disease and/or stroke at baseline from…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
14 years
Authors
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Multiple risk factor clustering was associated with higher CHD/stroke mortality in Japanese men; extends risk models but leaves generalizability and practice change open.
The clustering of 3 or more cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, hyperglycemia, obesity) significantly increases the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke mortality in Japanese men.
Nakamura et al. (2006) studied this question.
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