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. 2012 Aug 10:11:101.
doi: 10.1186/1476-511X-11-101.

Prediction of metabolic syndrome among postmenopausal Ghanaian women using obesity and atherogenic markers

Fareed K N Arthur  1 , Michael Adu-Frimpong, James Osei-Yeboah, Faustina O Mensah, Lawrence Owusu
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Prediction of metabolic syndrome among postmenopausal Ghanaian women using obesity and atherogenic markers

Fareed K N Arthur et al. Lipids Health Dis. .

Abstract

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is an important health problem which puts individuals at risk for cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes as well as obesity-related cancers such as colon and renal cell in men, and endometrial and oesophageal in women.

Objective: This study was aimed at examining how obesity indicators and related determinants influence metabolic syndrome, and how the factors can be used to predict the syndrome and its cut-offs in postmenopausal Ghanaian women.

Methods: Two hundred and fifty (250) Ghanaian subjects were involved in the study with one hundred and forty-three (143) being premenopausal women and one hundred and seven (107) postmenopausal women. The influence of traditional metabolic risk factors including high blood pressure, dyslipidemia and glucose intolerance on obesity and atherogenic indices i.e. body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), Waist-to-thigh ratio (WTR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), high density lipoprotein cholesterol to total cholesterol ratio (HDL-C/TC), high density lipoprotein cholesterol to low density lipoprotein ratio (HDL-C/LDL-C) and triglyceride to high density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (TG/HDL-C) were identified according to the Harmonization (H_MS) criterion.

Results: The predominant anthropometric marker that significantly influence metabolic risk factors among the pre- and postmenopausal women was waist-to-hip ratio (premenopausal: p- 0.004, 0.026 and 0.002 for systolic blood pressure (SBP), fasting blood glucose (FBG) and HDL-C; postmenopausal: p-0.012, 0.048, 0.007 and 0.0061 for diastolic blood pressure (DBP), FBG, triglyceride (TG) and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) respectively). Using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, the area under the curve for WC, WHR, TG/HDL-C and HDL-C/TC among postmenopausal women were estimated at 0.6, 0.6, 0.8 and 0.8 respectively. The appropriate cut-off values for WC, WHR, TG/HDL-C and HDL-C/TC that predicted the presence of metabolic syndrome were 80.5 cm, 0.84, 0.61 and 0.34 respectively.

Conclusion: The presence of metabolic syndrome among Ghanaian postmenopausal women can be predicted using WC, WHR, TG/HDL-C and HDL-C/TC.

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The ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curves A, B, C, and D for BMI, WC, WHtR, WTR, WHR, and TG/HDL-C as well as HDL-C/TC and TG/HDL-C to detect high blood pressure in postmenopausal and premenopausal Ghanaian Women respectively.
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Figure 2
The ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curves A, B, C, and D for BMI, WC, WHtR, WTR, WHR, and TG/HDL-C as well as HDL-C/TC and TG/HDL-C to detect high glucose level in postmenopausal and premenopausal Ghanaian Women respectively.
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Figure 3
The ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curves A, B, C, and D for BMI, WC, WHtR, WTR, WHR, and TG/HDL-C as well as HDL-C/TC and TG/HDL-C to detect low HDL-C level in postmenopausal and premenopausal Ghanaian Women respectively.
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Figure 4
The ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curves A, B, C, and D for BMI, WC, WHtR, WTR, WHR, and TG/HDL-C as well as HDL-C/TC and TG/HDL-C to detect metabolic syndrome among postmenopausal and premenopausal Ghanaian Women respectively.
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