A decision tree-based approach for identifying urban-rural differences in metabolic syndrome risk factors in the adult Korean population

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Summary

The decision-tree approach revealed that the combination of high serum triglycerides + high systolic blood pressure (SBP), high TG + low HDL cholesterol, and high waist circumference (WC) + high SBP + high fasting plasma glucose (FPG) showed high positive predictive value for the presence of MetS in the rural population.

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Published
2012-01-30
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Metabolic syndrome, National Cholesterol Education Program, Waist, Medicine, Population

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