Continuous and Dichotomous Metabolic Syndrome Definitions in Youth Predict Adult Type 2 Diabetes and Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
4164539	The Journal of Pediatrics	2016	10 Pages	PDF

Abstract

cMetS scores in youth are predictive of cardiometabolic outcomes in adulthood. However, they do not have increased predictive utility over a dichotomous definition of MetS.

Keywords

IDI T2DM RES HDL IMT NHANES AUC high-density lipoprotein PCA National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Integrated discrimination improvement Principal components analysis Type 2 diabetes mellitus Metabolic syndrome body mass index BMI Intima-media thickness METS area under the curve

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Continuous and Dichotomous Metabolic Syndrome Definitions in Youth Predict Adult Type 2 Diabetes and Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

Authors

Costan G. PhD, Sanith MBBS, Matthew A. MD, PhD, Markus MD, PhD, Juha MD, PhD, Russell PhD, Michael R. PhD, Mika MD, PhD, Tomi MD, PhD, Leena MD, PhD, Nina MD, PhD, Jorma S.A. MD, PhD, Olli T. MD, PhD,