Published on in Vol 9 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/44073, first published .
Association Between Metabolic Syndrome and Mortality: Prospective Cohort Study

Association Between Metabolic Syndrome and Mortality: Prospective Cohort Study

Association Between Metabolic Syndrome and Mortality: Prospective Cohort Study

Wenzhen Li   1 * , MD, PhD ;   Dajie Chen   2 , PhD ;   Ying Peng   3 , MS ;   Zuxun Lu   4 , MD ;   Mei-Po Kwan   5, 6, 7 , PhD ;   Lap Ah Tse   1, 6, 8 * , MD, PhD

1 Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

2 Department of Health Service and Management, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China

3 Department of Communicable Diseases Control and Prevention, Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China

4 Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

5 Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

6 Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

7 Institute of Future Cities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

8 Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory for health Risk Analysis, Shenzhen Research Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

*these authors contributed equally

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  • Lap Ah Tse, MD, PhD
  • Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong
  • China (Hong Kong)
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