Clustering trend of components of metabolic syndrome.
Hereby we report our observations derived from the study of a huge cross-sectional sample of the general population that metabolic risk factors (RFs) tend to cluster into metabolic syndrome (MS). The clustering trend was considered to be intensified with 4-5 RFs.
Aizawa
Yoshifusa
Y
Watanabe
Hiroshi
H
Ramadan
Mahmoud M
MM
Usuda
Yoshimaru
Y
Watanabe
Tohru
T
Sasaki
Shigeru
S
D015992:Body Mass Index; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors