Assessing the added predictive ability of a metabolic syndrome severity score in predicting incident cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study and Jackson Heart Study

BACKGROUND: The severity of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) predicts future coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes independent of the individual MetS components. Our aim was to evaluate whether MetS severity conferred additional discrimination to existing scoring systems for cardiovascular disease...

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Autores principales: Guo, Yi, Musani, Solomon K., Sims, Mario, Pearson, Thomas A., DeBoer, Mark D., Gurka, Matthew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5956946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29796112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13098-018-0344-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5956946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29796112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13098-018-0344-3

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