Metabolic syndrome with and without C-reactive protein as a predictor of coronary heart disease and diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study.

N, Sattar; A, Gaw; O, Scherbakova; I, Ford; DS, O'Reilly; SM, Haffner; C, Isles; PW, Macfarlane; CJ, Packard; SM, Cobbe; J, Shepherd

doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000080897.52664.94

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Metabolic syndrome with and without C-reactive protein as a predictor of coronary heart disease and diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study.

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Sattar N

Gaw A

Scherbakova O

Abstract

Background The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) recently proposed a simple definition for metabolic syndrome. Information on the prospective association of this definition for coronary heart disease (CHD) and type 2 diabetes is currently limited.Methods and results We used a modified NC...

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