Clinical value of the metabolic syndrome for long term prediction of total and cardiovascular mortality: prospective, population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To find out if the presence of the metabolic syndrome increases the risk of subsequent total and cardiovascular mortality, taking into account established risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

General population.

Participants

A community based sample of 2322 men followed since 1970 for a maximum of 32.7 years, investigated at ages 50 and 70.

Main outcome measures

The relations of the metabolic syndrome defined by the national cholesterol education programme (NCEP) of the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute or criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO) to subsequent total and cardiovascular mortality.

Results

When adding the metabolic syndrome to models with established risk facto

SUBMITTER: Sundstrom J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1440609 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature