Table 3.

Comparison of TAS between groups with and without metabolic risk factors

^1),2),3)National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III (2001)

⁴⁾Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus (2003)

⁵⁾Korean Society for the Study of Obesity (2007)

⁶⁾Asia-Pacific definition presented by World Health Organization West Pacific Region (2000)

⁷⁾Subjects who had 3 and more metabolic risk factors (Waist circumference, TG, HDL, blood pressure and fasting glucose)

^aMale, ^bFemale

^*Significance by independent samples t-test