THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEMATOLOGIC VARIABLES AND METABOLIC SYNDROME

Method and Material-This cross-sectional study recruited 11974 participants over 19 years old who participated in the Isfahan Healthy Heart Program (IHHP) in Najafabad and Arak, Isfahan. Participants were selected using multi-stage random sampling. A questionnaire about demographic variables, including age, sex, and past medical history, was filled for each participant by a trained nurse, and the participants’ blood pressure, height, weight, waist circumference, and other anthropometric variables were recorded by physicians using standard methods. After 12 hours fasting, laboratory parameters, including RBC, WBC, hemoglobin (Hb), and hematocrit, (Hct) together with such biochemical variables as glucose, triglyceride (TG), and HDL-cholesterol were measured. MetS was defined according to the ATP-III criteria. The data were entered in SPSS-11 and analyzed using the t-test and correlation analysis.