Figure 1.

Adjusted prevalence of stage C of heart failure (HF), left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) according to number of features of the metabolic syndrome, estimated by multiple linear regression (upper panel). Adjusted mean of left ventricular (LV) mass, LV diameter and left atrial (LA) diameter, all indexed to height, according to number of features of the metabolic syndrome estimated by multiple logistic regression (lower panel). In each chart, three models are presented: adjusting for age and gender (blue line), adjusting for the predicted 10-year risk of coronary heart disease by the Framingham risk score (orange) and adjusting for age, gender and systolic blood pressure (green). The dotted lines represent 95% confidence intervals of estimates. P values are for linear trend and were estimated by running the same models with the number of features of the metabolic syndrome as a continuous variable.