Table 2.

Race/Ethnicity, Education and Framingham Risk Score and Metabolic Syndrome

	Framingham Risk (n=278)			Metabolic Syndrome (MS) (n=322)
	Low	Moderate	High	< 3 components of MS	≥ 3 components of MS
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White	102 (68%)	41 (27%)	7 (5%)	141 (90%)	15 (10%)
Hispanic	47 (55%)	28 (33%)	10 (12%)	64 (56%)	50 (44%)
Non-Hispanic Black	13 (46%)	11 (39%)	4 (14%)	22 (73%)	8 (27%)
Asian	9 (82%)	1 (9%)	1 (9%)	15 (83%)	3 (17%)
Other	4 (100%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	4 (100%)	0 (0%)
p value			0.09		<0.0001
Education Years
≤8 years	12 (33%)	16 (44%)	8 (22%)	19 (39%)	30 (61%)
9–12 years	21 (51%)	15 (37%)	5 (12%)	24 (11%)	22 (45%)
>12 years	139 (70%)	50 (25%)	9 (5%)	195 (89%)	27 (55%)
p value			<0.0001		<0.0001