Open AccessMetabolic syndrome across Europe: Different clusters of risk factors
Author(s) -
Angelo Scuteri,
Stéphane Laurent,
Francesco Cucca,
John Cockcroft,
Pedro Cunha,
Leocadio Rodrı́guez-Mañas,
Francesco MattaceRaso,
María Lorenza Muiesan,
Ligita Ryliškytė,
Ernst Rietzschel,
James Strait,
Charalambos Vlachopoulos,
Henry Völzke,
Edward G. Lakatta,
Peter M. Nilsson
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
european journal of preventive cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 2047-4881
pISSN - 2047-4873
DOI - 10.1177/2047487314525529
Subject(s) - medicine , metabolic syndrome , abdominal obesity , waist , cohort , obesity , blood pressure , cluster (spacecraft) , cohort study , demography , endocrinology , sociology , computer science , programming language
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) remains a controversial entity. Specific clusters of MetS components - rather than MetS per se - are associated with accelerated arterial ageing and with cardiovascular (CV) events. To investigate whether the distribution of clusters of MetS components differed cross-culturally, we studied 34,821 subjects from 12 cohorts from 10 European countries and one cohort from the USA in the MARE (Metabolic syndrome and Arteries REsearch) Consortium.
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