Relationship of Metabolic Syndrome and Fibrinolytic Dysfunction to Cardiovascular Disease

BACKGROUND: The clustering of impaired glucose metabolism, elevated triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, and abdominal obesity is known as the metabolic syndrome. Individuals with this syndrome suffer an excess of cardiovascular disease (CVD) for reasons that are unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS: We randomly sampled 1276 adults of South Asian, Chinese, European, and Native Indian ancestry from 4 communities in Canada. Participants provided fasting …