Associations of a Metabolic Syndrome Severity Score with Coronary Heart Disease and Diabetes in Fasting vs. Non-fasting Individuals

Many traditional assessments of risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes require laboratory studies performed after an 8-hour fast. We assessed whether metabolic-syndrome (MetS) severity would remain linked to future CHD and diabetes even when assessed from non-fasting samples.

Source: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD - August 23, 2019 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mark D. DeBoer, Stephanie L. Filipp, Matthew J. Gurka Source Type: research