May 1, 1996Diabetes Care
A Metabolic Syndrome in Whites and African-Americans: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities baseline study
Population
14,481 African-American and white men and women, 45-64 years of age, from the Atherosclerosis Risk in…
Design
Cross-sectional
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Discussion
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Implication
Metabolic clustering beyond chance supports syndrome construct across groups; leaves open causal role of insulin/adiposity and clinical utility pending longitudinal data.
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Population
14,481 African-American and white men and women, 45-64 years of age, from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) baseline survey (1987-1989)
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Outcome
Clustering of hypertriglyceridemia, low HDL cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, and hyperuricemia and its association with fasting insulin, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and BMIsurrogate
Metabolic abnormalities cluster together more than expected by chance in both white and African-American adults, and this clustering is strongly associated with fasting insulin and central adiposity.
Cite This Study
Schmidt et al. (1996) studied this question.