Open AccessTriglyceride-Glucose Index Is a Useful Marker for Predicting Future Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Young Korean Adults: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Yun Kyung Cho,
Kyung Do Han,
Hwi Seung Kim,
Chang Hee Jung,
Joong-Yeol Park,
Woo Je Lee
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of lipid and atherosclerosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2288-2561
pISSN - 2287-2892
DOI - 10.12997/jla.2022.11.2.178
Subject(s) - medicine , quartile , hazard ratio , body mass index , proportional hazards model , stroke (engine) , triglyceride , confidence interval , national death index , population , cholesterol , environmental health , mechanical engineering , engineering
The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, the product of fasting triglycerides and glucose, is a useful and cost-effective marker of insulin resistance (IR). Furthermore, the TyG index is a known IR screening tool in healthy young adults but not in those with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the TyG index as a predictor of CVD in healthy young adults.