Table 4.

Risk of major CV events for MetS (Model 1) and for the combination of its components (Model 2)

	HR (95% CI)*	P-value	AIC**	c-statistics
Model 1: Risk of MetS for major CV events
MetS	2.12 (1.59-2.81)	<0.001	3863.6	0.761
Model 2: Risk of the components of MetS modeled together
High fasting plasma glucose	1.57 (1.20-2.05)	0.001	3850.0	0.771
High BP	1.86 (1.34-2.60)	<0.001
Low HDL-cholesterol	1.50 (1.12-2.01)	0.007
High triglycerides	1.16 (0.88-1.53)	0.294
Abdominal obesity	1.14 (0.81-1.59)	0.458

^*Adjusted for age, sex, smoking, family history of CV diseases, and LDL-cholesterol.

^**AIC - Akaike information criteria (lower value denotes better model); BP - blood pressure.

c-statistics measures the discriminative ability of the model, and values closer to 1.0 are better