Authors: D F Waterhouse A M McLaughlin F Sheehan D O’Shea
Publish Date: 2009/01/08
Volume: 178, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-166
Abstract
The ATPIIIdefined prevalence of MetS in this population was 132 Using IDF criteria 214 of subjects were identified as having the MetS Correlation between the two definitions was high however IDF criteria identified an additional 95 n = 164 of the population as having MetS which ATPIII criteria failed to recogniseWe noted a higher prevalence of MetS in the studied population when defined by IDF criteria However those identified by IDF and not by ATPIII definition did not have a higher cardiovascular risk score by either Framingham or European Score than those without MetS Thus application of the ATPIII definition of MetS may be the more practical
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