Table 1.
Three world-wide definitions of MetS.
Table 2.
Characteristics of the participants.
Fig 1.
Crude and age-adjusted prevalence of MetS based on three diagnostic criteria in Kazakhs.
Table 3.
Age-specific and age-adjusted prevalence of MetS in Kazakh adults based on criteria of the IDF, ATP III, and JIS.
Table 4.
Adjusted odds ratios of MetS components according to waist circumference category.
Fig 2.
ROC curve of waist circumference to detect the existence of at least two other components of MetS in Kazakhs based on the JIS (2009) in men.
Fig 3.
ROC curve of waist circumference to detect the existence of at least two other components of MetS in Kazakhs based on the JIS (2009) in women.
Table 5.
Sensitivity, specificity, and ROC curve distance for detecting clusters of at least two metabolic risk factors (based on the JIS) for each cut-off value of waist circumference.