The new worldwide definition of metabolic syndrome is not a better diagnostic predictor of cardiovascular disease in Japanese diabetic patients than the existing definitions: additional analysis from the Japan Diabetes Complications Study

Diabetes Care. 2006 Jan;29(1):145-7. doi: 10.2337/diacare.29.1.145.

Authors

Hirohito Sone¹, Sachiko Tanaka, Shun Ishibashi, Yoshimitsu Yamasaki, Shinichi Oikawa, Hideki Ito, Yasushi Saito, Yasuo Ohashi, Yasuo Akanuma, Nobuhiro Yamada; Japan Diabetes Complications Study (JDCS) Group

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tsukuba Institute of Clinical Medicine, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 305-8575.

PMID: 16373914
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.29.1.145

No abstract available

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Blood Pressure
Body Size
Cardiovascular Diseases / epidemiology*
Cholesterol, HDL / blood
Diabetic Angiopathies / epidemiology*
Female
Humans
Japan
Male
Metabolic Syndrome / blood
Metabolic Syndrome / classification*
Metabolic Syndrome / complications
Metabolic Syndrome / physiopathology
Reproducibility of Results
Triglycerides / blood
World Health Organization

Substances

Cholesterol, HDL
Triglycerides