Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aims: Recently, a metabolic syndrome severity score (MS score) using a dataset of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys has been developed. We aimed to determine whether the newly developed score is a significant predictor of cardiovascular (CV) events among the Korean population.Methods: From the Korean National Health Insurance System, 2,541,364 (aged 40–59 years) subjects with no history of CV events (ischemi...

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