Table 2 Prevalence of individual constituent risks of the metabolic syndrome according to individual metabolic subgroups.

Constituents	Overall (n = 8397)	Metabolic syndrome absent		Metabolic syndrome present
		Without diabetes (n = 5712)	With diabetes (n = 721)	Without diabetes (n = 1183)	With diabetes (n = 781)
Diabetes	17.9	0	100	0	100
Fasting glucose >6.1 (in absence of diabetes)	22.0	17.0	0	73.9	0
Hypertension (BP >130/85 mm Hg or receiving antihypertensive drug treatment)	91.7	90.0	86.5	99.0	98.5
HDL <1.0 mmol/l (male) or <1.3 mmol/l (female)	31.9	20.4	4.4	79.2	69.9
Obesity (BMI >30 kg/m2)	21.8	10.1	1.2	66.4	58.7

Results are shown as percentages.

BP, blood pressure; HDL, high‐density lipoprotein; BMI, body mass index.