BACKGROUND: Deprivation, a process that prevents @entity1 to assume their social responsibilities, is a main cause of inequalities in health. @entity209 has a growing prevalence in France. OBJECTIVES: To assess the association between deprivation and the @entity209 and to identify the most relevant waist circumference cut-off point. METHODS: A cross-sectional multicentre study was carried out of data extracted from health examination centres of two French areas in 2008. The harmonized definition of the @entity209 contained five criteria with two thresholds for waist circumference. Deprivation was calculated by the Evaluation of Deprivation and Inequalities in Health Examination Centres score (EPICES). Eligible @entity1 were at least 16 years old. The methodology of time to event analysis was used on @entity1 having two criteria to identify the most relevant waist circumference threshold, taking waist circumference as event and computing it as a continuous variable. The median corresponded to the waist circumference threshold for which half of the @entity1 switched from two to three criteria and so @entity209 . RESULTS: Of the 32374 @entity1 included in the study, 39.4% were socially deprived. The prevalence of the @entity209 varied from 16.3% to 22.2% in the overall sample depending on the published waist circumference thresholds chosen. Deprivation was an independent factor associated with the @entity209 . The cut-off point for waist circumference was between 95 and 99cm for @entity1 and 88 and 97cm for @entity1 . CONCLUSION: Deprivation is associated with a higher prevalence of the @entity209 . The most relevant threshold for waist circumference could be 94cm for @entity1 and 88cm for @entity1 .

XXXX and social deprivation: results of a French observational multicentre survey.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'people', 'persons', 'men'] @entity209 :: ('MESH:D008659', 'Disease') :: ['metabolic syndrome', 'Metabolic syndrome']
@entity209 :: (MESH:D008659,Disease) :: ['Metabolic syndrome']
