Given a passage with a question and an answer to that question, classify if the answer actually answers the question into 'yes' or 'no'. Output 'yes' if the answer answers the question and output 'no' if the answer does not answer the question.

Question: Is presence of the metabolic syndrome a better predictor of cardiovascular disease than the sum of its components in HIV-infected individuals : data collection on adverse events of anti-HIV drugs ( D : A : D ) study?
Answer: The presence of the metabolic syndrome in HIV-infected individuals did not appear to increase the CVD risk over and above that conferred by the components of the syndrome separately.
no