title: Effect of metabolic syndrome components and their clustering on carotid atherosclerosis in a general Japanese population: methodological issues of model building.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.|Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Erfan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ayubi
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
authors.forename: Salman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khazaei
authors.affiliation: Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.
authors.forename: Kamyar
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mansori
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sanjari Moghaddam
mesh_terms: D002339:Carotid Arteries; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D006801:Humans; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome; D012307:Risk Factors