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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
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you see about a quadrupling of risk in this case.
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That constellation of risk factors that gets packed together
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tells you more in some cases about a person's risk for disease
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than if all you knew was their weight.
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Now down--you're going to see this sort of thing.
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I circled this P<0.001 over here that's a
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--if any of you have taken statistics will know what that means,
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but it's the statistical term that tells you