Table 4 Hazard ratio and 95 %CI of CVD for MetS and the number of components of MetS by the NCEP, AHA/NHLBI and IDF criteria in elderly male from rural China

MetS by different criteria (ref = non- MetS)

  NCEP ATP III

1.36(0.60,3.08)

1.29(0.55,2.99)

1.19(0.74,1.92)

1.28(0.79,2.09)

1.16(0.74,1.80)

1.25(0.80,1.97)

  AHA/NHLBI

1.21(0.57,2.55)

1.14(0.53,2.44)

1.31(0.87,1.99)

1.41(0.92,2.15)

1.23(0.84,1.81)

1.32(0.90,1.96)

  IDF

1.10(0.51,2.41)

0.98(0.44,2.18)

1.43(0.95,2.16)

1.35(0.88,2.06)

1.36(0.94,1.98)

1.28(0.87,1.89)

Metabolic components (ref = no)

  Elevated Blood pressure

0.60(0.27,1.30)

0.53(0.24,1.19)

0.99(0.60,1.63)

0.98(0.59,1.63)

0.88(0.57,1.36)

0.86(0.55,1.35)

  Hypertriglycerides

1.15(0.56,2.38)

1.24(0.59,2.58)

1.25(0.84,1.87)

1.33(0.89,2.00)

1.13(0.78,1.64)

1.24(0.85,1.81)

  Low HDL-C

1.58(0.72,3.44)

1.19(0.54,2.64)

0.89(0.52,1.50)

0.90(0.52,1.53)

0.99(0.62,1.57)

0.97(0.61,1.55)

  Abdominal obesity (NCEP ATP III and AHA/NHLBI) ^a

2.07(0.50,8.62)

2.17(0.52,9.14)

0.56(0.14,2.27)

0.56(0.14,2.27)

1.06(0.39,2.85)

1.10(0.41,2.98)

  Abdominal obesity (IDF) ^b

1.21(0.60,2.45)

1.12(0.54,2.31)

1.17(0.79,1.74)

1.08(0.71,1.643

1.20(0.84,1.72)

1.12(0.77, 1.62)

  High FPG (NCEP ATP III) ^c

1.70(0.89,3.26)

1.72(0.88,3.34)

1.10(0.75,1.63)

1.15(0.77,170)

1.22(0.86,1.72)

1.26(0.89, 1.79)

  High FPG (AHA/NHLBI and IDF) ^d

1.15(0.60,2.19)

1.14(0.59,2.19)

1.16(0.81,1.67)

1.18(0.82,1.71)

1.19(0.86,1.65)

1.22(0.88,1.71)