Metabolic Syndrome May Not be a Good Predictor of Coronary Artery Disease in the Iranian Population: Population-Specific Definitions are Required | Zendy

Mahmoud Ebrahimi | Zendy; Seyyed Mohammad Reza KazemiBajestani | Zendy; Majid GhayourMobarhan | Zendy; Mohsen Moohebati | Zendy; Roghaye Paydar | Zendy; Mohsen AzimiNezhad | Zendy; Habib Ollah Esmaily | Zendy; Gordon A. Ferns | Zendy

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Metabolic Syndrome May Not be a Good Predictor of Coronary Artery Disease in the Iranian Population: Population-Specific Definitions are Required

Author(s) -

Mahmoud Ebrahimi,

Seyyed Mohammad Reza KazemiBajestani,

Majid GhayourMobarhan,

Mohsen Moohebati,

Roghaye Paydar,

Mohsen AzimiNezhad,

Habib Ollah Esmaily,

Gordon A. Ferns

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1100/tsw.2009.17

Subject(s) - coronary artery disease , metabolic syndrome , population , medicine , disease , cardiology , environmental health , obesity

The inability of two definitions of metabolic syndrome (MS) to predict the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in a non-Caucasian population was demonstrated. Angiography was used as the gold standard method for identifying patients with (cases) or without (controls) CAD. It is possible that the current definitions of MS are not appropriate for some non-Caucasian populations.

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