Metabolic syndrome across Europe: Different clusters of risk factors

Scuteri, Angelo; Laurent, Stéphane; Cucca, Francesco; Cockcroft, John; Cunha, Pedro; Rodríguez‐Mañas, Leocadio; Mattace‐Raso, Francesco; Lorenza Muiesan, María; Ryliškytė, Ligita; Rietzschel, Ernst; Strait, James; Vlachopoulos, Charalambos; Völzke, Henry; G. Lakatta, Edward; M. Nilsson, Peter

doi:10.1177/2047487314525529

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Metabolic syndrome across Europe: Different clusters of risk factors

Published in European Journal of Preventive Cardiology • Mar 19, 2014

Authors:

Angelo Scuteri

Stéphane Laurent

Francesco Cucca

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) remains a controversial entity. Specific clusters of MetS components - rather than MetS per se - are associated with accelerated arterial ageing and with cardiovascular (CV) events. To investigate whether the distribution of clusters of MetS components differed ...

Subject

Medicine

Metabolic syndrome

Abdominal obesity

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