Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in the Elderly Population According to IDF, WHO, and NCEP Definitions and Associations With C-Reactive Protein
The KORA Survey 2000
- Wolfgang Rathmann, MD, MSPH1,
- Burkhard Haastert, PHD1,
- Andrea Icks, MD, MPH1,
- Guido Giani, PHD1,
- Rolf Holle, PHD2,
- Wolfgang Koenig, MD3,
- Hannelore Löwel, MD4 and
- Christa Meisinger, MD4
- 1Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Institute at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Neuherberg, Germany
- 3University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
- 4GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
- Address correspondence to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Koenig, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm Medical Center, Robert-Kochstr. 8, D-89081 Ulm, Germany. E-mail: wolfgang.koenig{at}medizin.uni-ulm.de
Recently, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has formulated a new worldwide definition for the metabolic syndrome (1). In contrast to the previous World Health Organization (WHO) and National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) criteria, abdominal obesity was considered as a prerequisite (2, 3). Population-based epidemiological data on the metabolic syndrome in Europe are rare, and the prevalence in Germany is unknown. Thus, we estimated sex-specific prevalences of the metabolic syndrome according to the IDF, WHO, and NCEP definitions in the population-based KORA Survey 2000 (Augsburg, …
