Associations of a metabolic syndrome severity score with coronary heart disease and diabetes in fasting vs. non-fasting individuals

Many traditional assessments of risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes require laboratory studies performed after an 8-h fast. We assessed whether metabolic-syndrome (MetS) severity would remain linked to future CHD and diabetes even when assessed from non-fasting samples.Participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study were assessed at 4 visits and followed for 20-years of adjudicated CHD outcomes. We used Cox...