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and I'll show you some data on its impact on health.
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Then there's some interesting statistical things
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that you'll see in these studies.
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This first slide shows a graph of
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the impact of having metabolic syndrome on heart disease and its consequences.
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You'll see a graph with yellow lines, yellow bars that are people without the metabolic syndrome
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and red bars are people with.
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We're going to start at the right and work to the left.
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So using stroke as the outcome here, what you see is that
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people with the metabolic syndrome, the red bar,
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compared to the people without it, the yellow bar,
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have about twice the amount of risk.