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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.
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On the y axis here it's the percent of people with
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these two conditions who have cardiovascular disease--or stroke
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rather 5%--less than 5% and a little over 5%
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with the stroke as the outcome.
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MI stands for heart attack, myocardial infarction,
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and in this case you see an even bigger differential of people
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with a metabolic syndrome having even more elevated risk then they did for stroke.
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Using coronary heart disease as the outcome