Assessing the added predictive ability of a metabolic syndrome severity score in predicting incident cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study and Jackson Heart Study

Assessing the added predictive ability of a metabolic syndrome severity score in predicting incident cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study and Jackson Heart Study

Abstract Background The severity of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) predicts future coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes independent of the individual MetS components. Our aim was to evaluate whether MetS severity conferred additional discrimination to existing scoring systems for cardiovascular...

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Main Authors: Yi Guo, Solomon K. Musani, Mario Sims, Thomas A. Pearson, Mark D. DeBoer, Matthew J. Gurka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
Subjects:
Metabolic syndrome
Cardiovascular disease
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Risk prediction
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13098-018-0344-3

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