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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2007 Dec 6;39(1):30–35. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.496588

Table 2.

Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome and Specific Subcomponents Overall and by Sex and Race/Ethnicity

Prevalence
Overall Cohort, n=3297 Women, n=2077 Men, n=1220 White, n=692 Black, n=791 Hispanic, n=1714
Components of the metabolic syndrome 44 48 38 39 37 50
 Waist, % (woman, >35 in.; man, >40 in.) 42 54 22 37 47 43
 Hypertension, % (systolic ≥130 or diastolic ≥85 mm Hg or hypertension history) 86 88 84 81 90 88
 Triglycerides, % >150 mg/dL 30 29 31 30 19 35
 HDL, % (women, <50; men, <40) 54 56 52 47 41 64
Blood glucose, % ≥100 mg/dL 33 21 12 31 33 34