Table 2 Prevalence of obesity/overweight, abdominal obesity, dysfunctional adipose tissue, metabolic risk factors, and subclinical cardiovascular disease among Jackson Heart Study participants with stage 2 and 3 Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) syndrome at baseline.

From: Role of hypertension in the cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome among black adults: The Jackson Heart Study

 

Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic syndrome stage

 

Stage 2 (N = 1464)

Stage 3 (N = 225)

Metabolic Risk Factors, n (%)

Overweight/obesity, abdominal obesity, dysfunctional adipose tissue

Obesity

1399 (95.5%)

210 (93.3%)

Abdominal obesity

1010 (68.9%)

180 (80.0%)

Dysfunctional adipose tissue

704 (48.1%)

114 (50.7%)

Obesity, abdominal obesity, or dysfunctional adipose tissue

1464 (100%)

225 (100%)

Metabolic risk factors

Hypertension, %

1166 (79.6%)

214 (95.1%)

Diabetes, %

232 (15.8%)

99 (44.0%)

Hypertriglyceridemia, %

461 (31.4%)

72 (32.0%)

Moderate – High risk CKD

575 (39.2%)

131 (58.2%)

Metabolic syndrome

623 (42.5%)

131 (58.2%)

Number of metabolic risk factors, n (%)

0

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1

544 (37.1%)

40 (17.7%)

2

439 (29.9%)

45 (20.0%)

3

308 (21.0%)

62 (27.5%)

4

154 (10.5%)

59 (26.2%)

5

19 (1.3%)

19 (8.4%)

Subclinical CVD, n (%)

Left ventricular hypertrophy

0 (0%)

117 (52.0%)

High risk CVD (PREVENT equation 10-year total CVD risk ≥ 20%)

0 (0%)

132 (58.6%)

  1. Obesity: Body Mass Index ≥ 25 kg/m2.
  2. Abdominal obesity: waist circumference ≥ 102 cm for men and ≥ 88 cm for women.
  3. Dysfunctional adipose tissue: fasting blood glucose ≥ 100–124 mg/dL and/or Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) between 5.7% and 6.4%.
  4. See Table S1 for the definitions of the metabolic risk factors.
  5. CKD chronic kidney disease; PREVENT equation American Heart Association Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events equation, CVD cardiovascular disease.