- 著者
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Hidenori Arai
Akira Yamamoto
Yuji Matsuzawa
Yasushi Saito
Nobuhiro Yamada
Shinichi Oikawa
Hiroshi Mabuchi
Tamio Teramoto
Jun Sasaki
Noriaki Nakaya
Hiroshige Itakura
Yuichi Ishikawa
Yasuyoshi Ouchi
Hiroshi Horibe
Nobuo Shirahashi
Toru Kita
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本動脈硬化学会
- 雑誌
- Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis (ISSN:13403478)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.13, no.4, pp.202-208, 2006 (Released:2006-08-15)
- 参考文献数
- 15
- 被引用文献数
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To determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the Japanese general population, we analyzed data from a nationwide survey conducted in 2000. According to the Japanese new diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome in 2005, we analyzed 3,264 people aged from 20 to 79 (men, 1,917; women, 1,347) from the total participants. The incidence of metabolic syndrome was 7.8%. Men had a higher incidence (12.1%) than women (1.7%). Most of the women satisfying the criteria were 50 years old or over, while the incidence in men started to rise from their 30s. When we applied the criteria of Adult Treatment Panel III, the incidence was about 3-fold higher. In this population visceral obesity was associated with metabolic abnormalities, such as higher LDL-cholesterol, triglyceride, glucose, and blood pressure and lower HDL-cholesterol. Thus we determined the incidence of metabolic syndrome and each metabolic abnormality in the Japanese general population in 2000 and found an association of visceral obesity with metabolic abnormalities. Intervention to reduce the incidence of metabolic syndrome in Japan is necessary to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.