Hazard ratios of stroke recurrence and death for MetS and individual components in the model adjusted for metabolic syndrome and its individual componentsa.

aMultivariate Cox regression analysis of stroke and death outcome in patients with ischemic stroke caused by symptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis.bThere were too few non hypertensive patients in the study to enable the impact of this variable to be analyzed.Multivariable models were adjusted for sex, smoking behavior, diabetes, high BMI, LDL-C and individual components of MetS.BP blood pressure; TG triglyceride; HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HR hazard ratios.