OBJECTIVES Quantifying the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a community is important in planning preventive strategies, but such data are limited from developing countries, especially South Asia. We aimed to estimate the risks of coronary heart disease (CHD), total CVD, and CVD mortality in a Sri Lankan community. METHODS A community survey was conducted in an urban health administrati...

BACKGROUND The impact of the metabolic syndrome among populations in the Middle East region is unknown; we therefore examined the association between the syndrome and the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in an Iranian population. METHODS AND RESULTS The Isfahan Cohort Study (ICS) prospectively followed 6146 Iranian people (51.8% women, aged 35-75 years) from three cities and their rural d...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Chinese renal transplant recipients, using two different sets of diagnostic criteria. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS All Chinese patients who received solitary living-related or cadaveric kidney transplantation from 1 July 1997 to 31 December 2005 in our hospital with follow-up o...

(1) Background: Metabolic syndrome is a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease thus the objective study was to verify prevalence metabolic in farmers, as well association with sociodemographic, work and lifestyle factors. (2) Methods: Cross-sectional, observational study, conducted 790 individuals. For diagnosis syndrome, National Cholesterol Education Program’s Adult Treatment Panel III (N...

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is generally defined as a cluster of metabolically related cardiovascular risk factors which are often associated with the condition of insulin resistance, elevated blood pressure, and abdominal obesity. During the past decades, MetS has become a major public health issue worldwide in both adults and children. In this study, data from the China Health and Nutrition Sur...

OBJECTIVE To compare the frequency of occurrence of metabolic syndrome using three international definitions and to study the distribution of cardiovascular risk factors among newly diagnosed hypertensive Nigerian subjects. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTINGS Cardiology unit of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Nigeria. PARTICIPANTS One hundred forty newly diagnosed hypertensive Niger...

BACKGROUND Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with insulin resistance and features in common with the metabolic syndrome (MetS)--factors shown to predict cardiovascular risk and type 2 diabetes. We investigated the prevalence and characteristics of the MetS in PCOS by three definitions-World Health Organization (WHO), National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III ...

BACKGROUND The Screening for Heart Attack Prevention and Education (SHAPE) Task Force recommends noninvasive atherosclerosis imaging of all asymptomatic men (aged 45-75 years) and women (aged 55-75 years), except those at very low risk, to augment conventional cardiovascular risk assessment algorithms. METHODS Among 2611 participants in the Dallas Heart Study aged 30 to 65 years who underwent...