Open AccessMetabolic Syndrome Clusters and the Risk of Incident Stroke
Author(s) -
Sol Rodríguez-Colón,
Jingping Mo,
Yinkang Duan,
Jiahao Liu,
Joanne Caulfield,
Xuejuan Jin,
Duanping Liao
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.108.523035
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , stroke (engine) , metabolic syndrome , incidence (geometry) , proportional hazards model , population , confidence interval , obesity , environmental health , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , engineering
Little is known about the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the risk of incident stroke. This study is designed to identify particular clusters of MetS components that carry the highest risk of incident stroke.
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