Table 1. Number of individuals w/o metabolic syndrome among the participants and their number being representative of the Finnish population aged over 30 years.

	Study participants		Nationwide population
	Metabolic syndrome	Metabolic syndrome	Metabolic syndrome	Metabolic syndrome
	No	Yes	No	Yes
GSS
0	290	135	157,806	73,694
1	236	109	128,519	59,117
2	377	151	205,076	82,037
3	482	170	262,428	92,268
4	569	209	309,467	113,674
5	490	197	266,419	107,398
6	622	244	338,539	133,030
7	337	160	183,096	87,089
8	266	152	144,515	82,916
9	194	106	105,309	57,866
10	134	60	72,940	32,519
11	72	40	39,376	21,701
12	58	38	31,660	20,899
13	25	16	13,420	8725
14	14	8	7354	4559
15	8	3	4535	1701
16	2	1	1058	517
17	2	0	1176	0
18	2	2	1103	1174
GSS
0 to 7	3403	1375	1,851,349	748,308
8 to 18	776	427	422,447	232,577