The Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Associated Factors in an Urban City

• Conditions: Prediabetes

• Registration Number: NCT00308672
• Lead Sponsor: China Medical University Hospital

Brief Summary

The secondary objective is to evaluate the agreement between these criteria and the prevalence of concordant and discordant according to different criteria.

Detailed Description

Up to now, there has been to uniform case definition for the metabolic syndrome. The World Health Organization and the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel (ATP III), and Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan proposed different criteria for the metabolic syndrome. Therefore, the secondary objective is to evaluate the agreement between these criteria and the prevalence of concordant and discordant according to different criteria. Three thousand persons will be randomly selected from resident of Taichung City. All the participants will fulfill a structured questionnaire. Blood pressure, anthropometric variables are measured. Biochemical markers are analyzed by a biochemical autoanalyzer. Kappa will be used to estimate the agreement between different criteria.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-08
• Status Verified: 2006-03
• Study First Submitted: 2006-03-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2006-03-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2006-03-29
• Study First Posted: 2006-03-30
• Last Update Posted: 2006-03-30
• Study Completion: 2006-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 3000

Inclusion Criteria

Residents aged 40 and over of Taichung City, Taiwan in October, 2004.

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

China Medical University Hospital; 🇨🇳 Taichung city, Taiwan