Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Definitions

Participants who reported having been diagnosed with hypertension by a doctor or who had an average measured systolic blood pressure (SBP) ≥ 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ≥ 90 mmHg were defined as having hypertension. Diabetes was defined as having been diagnosed with diabetes by a doctor or having a measured FBG concentration ≥7.0 mmol/L. According to Chinese guidelines on the prevention and treatment of dyslipidemia in adults, dyslipidemia was defined as having at least one of the following: high TC (≥6.2 mmol/L), low HDL-C (<1.0 mmol/L), high LDL-C (≥4.1 mmol/L), and high TG (≥2.3 mmol/L) [21 (link)]. Hyperuricemia was defined as serum UA > 360 μmol/L in women and serum UA > 420 μmol/L in men.