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

Sattar, Naveed; Gaw, Allan; Scherbakova, Olga; Ford, Ian; S O’Reilly, D; M. Haffner, Steven; Isles, Chris; W. Macfarlane, Peter; J. Packard, Chris; M. Cobbe, Stuart; Shepherd, James

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

Published in Circulation • Jul 15, 2003

Authors:

Naveed Sattar

Allan Gaw

Olga Scherbakova

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...

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Medicine

Metabolic syndrome

Pravastatin

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