Gender Differences in the Prevalence and Development of Metabolic Syndrome in Chinese Population with Abdominal Obesity

• Shaoyong Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shaoyong Xu, Bin Gao

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

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• Bin Gao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shaoyong Xu, Bin Gao

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

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• Ying Xing,

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

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• Jie Ming,

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

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• Junxiang Bao,

  Affiliation Department of Aerospace Physiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

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• Qiang Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Chinese PLA general hospital, Beijing, China

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• Yi Wan ,

  * E-mail: jqiuhe@fmmu.edu.cn (QJ); wanyi@fmmu.edu.cn (YW)

  Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

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• Qiuhe Ji ,

  * E-mail: jqiuhe@fmmu.edu.cn (QJ); wanyi@fmmu.edu.cn (YW)

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

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• on behalf of the China National Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders Study Group

  ¶Membership of the China National Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders Study Group is provided in Appendix S1.

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