The Metabolic Syndrome in Older Individuals: Prevalence and Prediction of Cardiovascular Events

Table 3—

Baseline characteristics and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its components in subjects who developed and did not develop a CVD event

	Free of CVD events	Incident CVD events	P
n	1,711	464
Age (years)	73 ± 5	75 ± 5	<0.001
Male sex (%)	38.9	64.7	<0.001
Current smoking (%)	13.2	15.6	0.18
Family history of MI (%)	27.9	35.6	<0.01
Waist (cm)	92.2 ± 11.7	95.5 ± 10.1	<0.001
BMI (kg/m²)	26.0 ± 3.8	26.2 ± 3.2	0.22
SBP (mmHg)	135.3 ± 18.0	142.3 ± 17.4	<0.001
DBP (mmHg)	70.9 ± 9.5	72.4 ± 9.3	<0.01
Pulse pressure (mmHg)	64.4 ± 16.4	69.9 ± 16.0	<0.001
Fasting plasma glucose (mg/dl)	103.5 ± 23.6	112.6 ± 38.5	<0.001
Triglycerides (mg/dl)	127.5 ± 62.3	145.8 ± 75.5	<0.001
HDL cholesterol (mg/dl)	57.5 ± 15.5	50.1 ± 13.6	<0.001
LDL cholesterol (mg/dl)	129.8 ± 33.6	134.3 ± 37.5	<0.05
CCA IMT (mm)	0.97 ± 0.21	1.10 ± 0.28	<0.001
Alterations by ATPIII criteria
Glucose domain (%)	19.1	31.4	<0.001
Blood pressure domain (%)	59.6	77.8	<0.001
HDL cholesterol domain (%)	22.3	33.1	<0.001
Triglycerides domain (%)	25.1	33.7	<0.001
Abdominal obesity domain (%)	42.2	40.2	0.43
Metabolic syndrome (%)	24.0	38.7	<0.001
Alterations by WHO criteria
Glucose domain (%)	19.1	31.4	<0.001
Blood pressure domain (%)	43.7	60.9	<0.001
Lipid domain (%)	26.8	35.3	<0.001
Obesity domain (%)	43.7	60.0	<0.001
Metabolic syndrome (%)	17.2	29.3	<0.001

CCA, common carotid artery; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; MI, myocardial infarction; SBP, systolic blood pressure.

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