The Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Associated Factors in an Urban City

The Study for the Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Associated Factors in an Urban City- Comparison of Agreement for Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome Among the WHO, NCEP ATP III and Taiwan Definitions

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00308672

Enrollment

3000

Registered

2006-03-30

Start date

2005-08-31

Completion date

2006-07-31

Last updated

2006-03-30

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Conditions

Prediabetes

Brief summary

The secondary objective is to evaluate the agreement between these criteria and the prevalence of concordant and discordant according to different criteria.

Detailed description

Up to now, there has been to uniform case definition for the metabolic syndrome. The World Health Organization and the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel (ATP III), and Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan proposed different criteria for the metabolic syndrome. Therefore, the secondary objective is to evaluate the agreement between these criteria and the prevalence of concordant and discordant according to different criteria. Three thousand persons will be randomly selected from resident of Taichung City. All the participants will fulfill a structured questionnaire. Blood pressure, anthropometric variables are measured. Biochemical markers are analyzed by a biochemical autoanalyzer. Kappa will be used to estimate the agreement between different criteria.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

OTHER

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

40 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Residents aged 40 and over of Taichung City, Taiwan in October, 2004.

Exclusion criteria

Countries

Taiwan

Contacts

Primary ContactLi C Ing, MS.

a6446@www.cmuh.org.tw886-4-22052121

Outcome results