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Katrien Wijndaele | Zendy; Gastón Beunen | Zendy; Nathalie Duvigneaud | Zendy; Lynn Matton | Zendy; William Duquet | Zendy; Martine Thomis | Zendy; Johan Lefevre | Zendy; Renaat Philippaerts | Zendy

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A Continuous Metabolic Syndrome Risk Score

Author(s) -

Katrien Wijndaele,

Gastón Beunen,

Nathalie Duvigneaud,

Lynn Matton,

William Duquet,

Martine Thomis,

Johan Lefevre,

Renaat Philippaerts

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc06-1341

Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , metabolic syndrome , endocrinology

This study was designed to validate a continuous metabolic syndrome risk score (cMSy) using the International Diabetes Federation risk factors (1). Increasing evidence supports using a cMSy instead of a binary definition for epidemiological analyses: 1 ) dichotomizing continuous outcome variables reduces statistical power (2); 2 ) cardiovascular risk is a progressive function of several metabolic syndrome (MSy) risk factors, eliminating the need to dichotomize these factors (3); and 3 ) cardiovascular and diabetes risk increase progressively with increasing numbers of MSy risk factors, eliminating the need to dichotomize …

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