Association of metabolic syndrome with risk of cardiovascular disease mortality and all-cause mortality among Malaysian adults: a retrospective cohort study.

9 Subsequently, changes in lifestyle, namely poor dietary habits, increased refined sugar consumption and inadequate dietary fibre intake coupled with lower physical activity levels, have resulted in an increasing trend of MetS in Asian countries. 8 Furthermore, Asians tend to have a higher percentage of visceral fat compared with Westerners with the same body mass index (BMI). 10–12 Since abdominal obesity is a component of MetS, Asians are thus more likely to have MetS.

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After adjustment for age and sex, association was marginally significant.

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