BACKGROUND During last decade the metabolic syndrome has been defined by five different guidelines. Discrepancies in such definitions could influence syndrome predictive ability over cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the degree of agreement between these five guidelines, in population from Cartagena (Colombia). METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted in adu...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether a quantitatively derived metabolic syndrome definition predicts incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events better than do existing definitions. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data were pooled from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities, Cardiovascular Health, and Framingham Offspring studies (n = 20,581). Incident coronary heart disease and stroke events were asce...

Two major definitions of metabolic syndrome have been proposed. One focuses on the accumulation of risk factors, a measure used by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI); the other focuses on abdominal obesity, a measure used by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the Japanese government. The latter definition takes waist circu...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated whether psychosocial factors that are related to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes predict prospectively the risk for the metabolic syndrome using the different clinical criteria available for defining the syndrome. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Women were enrolled in a population-based prospective cohort study called the Healthy Women Study and were followed for...

Background: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) is increasing worldwide. Limited data are available trying to compare different definitions suggested to identify MetS. This study aimed to compare the prevalence of MetS and its components based on currently available international and Iranian national definitions. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015 amongfema...

The increased burden of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) parallels the incidence overweight and metabolic syndrome worldwide. Because close relationship between disorders disease, a new term, metabolic-related (MAFLD), was proposed by group experts to more precisely describe resulting from disorders. According definitions, MAFLD NAFLD populations have considerable discrepancies, but ove...

OBJECTIVE Determining agreement between three definitions of metabolic syndrome (MS) in hypertensive Colombian patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive study of 323 hypertensive patients from Cartagena, Colombia, was designed. A medical history was compiled; waist circumference, serum lipids and fasting serum glucose were recorded. MS prevalence was compared by using by the definitions p...

BACKGROUND The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) published a new definition of the metabolic syndrome (MetS). For this definition we compared frequency, concordance, clinical and laboratory stigmata and carotid atherosclerosis with those of the established definitions by the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) and World Health Organization (WHO). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total ...