Table 3.

Predictors of cumulative incident metabolic syndrome in middle-age women over 5 years of follow-up

	Cumulative incidence of metabolic syndrome
	Model 1*		Model 2*
Ethnicity	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
African-American	1.07	0.80–1.44	0.91	0.61–1.35
Hispanic	1.43	0.48– 4.29	0.50	0.11–2.19
Japanese	1.01	0.51–1.98	0.99	0.44–2.63
Chinese	0.70	0.35–1.31	1.17	0.50–2.75
Caucasian	1.00	—	1.00	—
	Model 1†		Model 2†
Education	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
High school or less	1.46	1.16– 1.84	1.38	1.02–1.85
Some college	1.25	1.02–1.53	0.99	0.76–1.28
College graduate	0.84	0.66–1.07	0.94	0.69–1.28
Post-college	1.00	—	1.00	—

CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.

Models, ^*ethnicity and †education.

Model 1 adjusts for site, menopausal status and age at baseline.

Model 2 adjusts for site, menopausal status and age at baseline, baseline smoking, alcohol consumption at visit 1 and baseline levels of individual components of the metabolic syndrome (waist, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein, blood pressure, and fasting glucose).

Reference group is Caucasian for ethnicity and post-college for education.