Table 1.

Clinical characteristics and outcomes stratified by number of MetS criteria

	0	1	2	3	4	All
Total patients	48 043	33 769	36 360	25 168	7714	151 054
Average age, y	52	58	62	60	57	58
Female, %	55	57	55	56	59	56
White, %	64	67	70	74	78	69
African American, %	8	12	13	14	13	11
HTN, %	0	6	92	98	10	58
Hyperlipidemia, %	0	16	72	92	100	41
DM, %	0	12	21	59	100	23
Obesity, %	0	7	15	51	100	19
Afib, %	4	16	26	30	32	18
COPD, %	8	24	35	43	48	26
CHF, %	5	21	33	43	46	24
CKD, %	3	17	29	38	38	20
Anxiety, %	2	4	5	8	10	4
Depression, %	8	22	31	41	49	24
Stroke, %	2	9	16	20	18	11
MI, %	1	5	12	16	16	8
Cancer, %	10	15	1	16	15	14
Smoking history, %	13	24	34	42	49	27
VTE recurrence, %	6.8	13.8	20.8	30.1	37.1	17.2
Mortality, %	11.6	20.2	18.1	16.7	13.0	16.0
Average no. of return ED visits (per patient)	1.1	1.7	2.1	2.7	3.0	1.9