Table 3.

Prevalence of individual metabolic abnormalities and MetS in the Normative Aging Study.

	Abdominal obesity	Hypertriglyceridemia	Low HDL cholesterol	High blood pressure or medication use	High fasting glucose or medication use	MetS
Total (%)a	35.8	26.4	25.4	66.8	33.4	32.2
Tertile of age-adjusted tibia lead (%)
< 14.1 μg/g (n = 138)	36.2	22.5	23.2	64.5	33.3	31.2
14.1–23.8 μg/g (n = 138)	37.2	25.4	24.6	60.9	29.7	30.4
> 23.8 μg/g (n = 137)	35.0	31.4	28.5	75.2	37.2	35.0
p for trend	0.84	0.09	0.32	0.06	0.50	0.49
Tertile of age-adjusted patella leadb (%)
< 13.2 μg/g (n = 132)	40.2	28.8	31.8	65.9	31.1	37.1
13.2–22.2 μg/g (n = 133)	36.8	29.3	24.1	63.9	35.3	33.1
> 22.2 μg/g (n = 133)	29.3	21.1	23.3	66.9	34.6	27.1
p for trend	0.07	0.15	0.12	0.86	0.54	0.08

^an = 413.

^bn = 398.