Metabolic Syndrome Derived from Principal Component Analysis and Incident Cardiovascular Events: The Multi Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC)

Metabolic Syndrome Derived from Principal Component Analysis and Incident Cardiovascular Events: The Multi Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC)

Background. The NCEP metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a combination of dichotomized interrelated risk factors from predominantly Caucasian populations. We propose a continuous MetS score based on principal component analysis (PCA) of the same risk factors in a multiethnic cohort and compare prediction o...

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Main Authors: Subhashish Agarwal, David R. Jacobs, Dhananjay Vaidya, Christopher T. Sibley, Neal W. Jorgensen, Jerome I. Rotter, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Yongmei Liu, Jeanette S. Andrews, Stephen Kritchevsky, Bret Goodpaster, Alka Kanaya, Anne B. Newman, Eleanor M. Simonsick, David M. Herrington
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:Cardiology Research and Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/919425
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