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　⇒Metabolic syndrome not a good predictor of death: Scientific American

The overall predictive value of the whole metabolic syndrome "has been questioned, and the ability of metabolic syndrome to identify mortality risk in older adults, the fastest growing segment of the population and the group at highest risk, is not clearly established," Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, of Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues note in the latest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.