Table 4. Risk of all-cause and CVD mortality based on the number of metabolic syndrome components in all subjects .

Individual components	HR (95% CI) All-cause– mortality	p	HR (95% CI) CVD mortality	p
0 component (reference)	1.00	-	-	-
1 component	2.64 (0.34 – 20.34)	0.35	1.00a	-
2 components	5.20 (0.68 – 39.41)	0.11	3.36 (0.98 – 11.52)	0.053
3 components	3.57 (0.46 – 27.45)	0.22	2.90 (0.85 – 9.92)	0.09
4 components	3.52 (0.41 – 30.15)	0.25	3.92 (0.98 – 15.67)	0.053
5 components	8.90 (1.04 -76.10)	0.046	7.55 (1.70 – 33.72)	0.008

^a0 or 1 components of metabolic syndrome were considered as the reference category