TY - JOUR T1 - An analysis of the structure of the components of metabolic syndrome using matroids JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 44 LP - 44 DO - 10.1136/jech.2009.096719r VL - 63 IS - Suppl 2 AU - A. Woolston AU - P. D. Baxter AU - M. S. Gilthorpe AU - E. Goodman AU - Y-K. Tu Y1 - 2009/10/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/63/Suppl_2/44.abstract N2 - Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been shown to be a risk factor for many chronic diseases, but the components of MetS are still controversial. In recent literature, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses have been used to test the latent structure amongst MetS components and regression modelling is used to test the relation between chronic diseases and MetS components. The MetS components such as BMI, blood pressure and lipids are in general correlated and clustered, and … ER -