Distinct Component Profiles and High Risk Among African Americans With Metabolic Syndrome | Zendy

Herman A. Taylor | Zendy; Jiankang Liu | Zendy; Gregory Wilson | Zendy; Sherita Hill Golden | Zendy; Errol D. Crook | Zendy; Claude D Brunson | Zendy; Micheal Steffes | Zendy; William D. Johnson | Zendy; Jung Hye Sung | Zendy

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Distinct Component Profiles and High Risk Among African Americans With Metabolic Syndrome

Author(s) -

Herman A. Taylor,

Jiankang Liu,

Gregory Wilson,

Sherita Hill Golden,

Errol D. Crook,

Claude D Brunson,

Micheal Steffes,

William D. Johnson,

Jung Hye Sung

Publication year - 2008

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/dc07-1810

Subject(s) - medicine , metabolic syndrome , abdominal obesity , diabetes mellitus , obesity , odds ratio , population , blood pressure , cohort , cohort study , endocrinology , environmental health

Health of African Americans is seriously threatened by unremitting epidemics of diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the role of metabolic syndrome in the African-American population has not been investigated widely. This study examined the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and assessed its cross-sectional relationship to CVD in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) cohort.

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