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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 14.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2007 Apr 9;115(17):2316–2322. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.669994

Table 1.

Description of metabolic risks in 1098 PSD Study participants. Risks in bold were used in defining MetS.

Baseline Follow-up
Mean SD Median IQ range Mean SD Median IQ range
Age (yrs) 15.0 1.6 14.8 2.4 17.7 1.5 17.6 2.2
Insulin (pM/L) 131.5 114.6 100.0 84.8 120.9 125.4 85.0 76.4
BMI 23.8 5.9 22.4 6 25.5 6.5 23.8 6.9
BMI Z score .73 1.00 .72 1.45 .71 1.05 .70 1.51
Glucose (mg/dl) 85.9 9.2 85.7 11.8 76.3 10.3 76.1 11.5
Waist circumference (cm) 79.6 13.9 76.1 15.4 85.6 15.3 81.6 16.8
SBP (mmHg) 114.9 10.3 114 14 116.0 10.8 115.3 14.7
DBP (mmHg) 70.3 8.8 70 12 69.6 7.6 69.0 10.3
HDL-C (mg/dl) 45.9 11.0 45 14 48.0 11.7 46 14
Triglycerides (mg/dl) 77.2 42.6 67.5 35 82.6 51.7 69 42