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*Diagnosis is established when ? 3 of these risk factors are present.

†Abdominal obesity is more highly correlated with metabolic risk factors than is ­ BMI.

‡Some men develop metabolic risk factors when circumference is only marginally increased.

Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults. JAMA. 2001;285:2486-2497.

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