Metabolic Syndrome as a Precursor of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

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Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2015 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association (2009, neutral): “A recent pooled analysis of waist circumference and mortality in 650 386 adults followed up for a median of 9 years revealed that a 5-cm increment in waist circumference was associated with an increase in all-cause mortality at all BMI categories examined from 20 to 50 kg/m(2).(59) Similarly, in an ”
Metabolic syndrome: a closer look at the growing epidemic and its associated pathologies (2015, background): “After 8 years 174 individuals had CVD, 107 had chronic heart disease and 178 individuals had T2DM (60).”
The metabolic syndrome. (2008, methodology): “Subjects in the Framingham Offspring Study demonstrated that the presence of the MetS (as defined by NCEP:ATPIII criteria) accounted for approximately half of the new diabetes cases over an 8-yr follow-up period (388).”
The metabolic syndrome. (2003, neutral): “92-fold over an 8-year period similar for men and women [36].”
Prediction of incident diabetes mellitus in middle-aged adults: the Framingham Offspring Study. (2007, background): “The traits thatconstitute themetabolic syndromeareespecially important in thedeterminationof risk forT2DM.(33) The simple clinical models presented in Table 3 show that each of the metabolic syndrome traits is highly associated with thedevelopmentofT2DM,andT2DMriskvariesconsiderablyacross thevariabl”