Association of Age of Metabolic Syndrome Onset With Cardiovascular Diseases: The Kailuan Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with an increased risk of incident cardiovascular diseases (CVD), but the association between the new-onset MetS at different ages and the CVD risk remain unclear.

Methods

This was a prospective study comprising a total of 72,986 participants without MetS and CVD who participated in the Kailuan study baseline survey (July 2006 to October 2007). All participants received the biennial follow-up visit until December 31, 2019. In addition, 26,411 patients with new-onset MetS were identified from follow-up, and one control participant was randomly selected for each of them as a match for age ( ± 1 year) and sex. In the end, a total of 25,125 case-control pairs were involved. Moreover, the Cox proportional hazard model was establi

SUBMITTER: Huang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8968729 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature