Fig. 2

Association of metabolic abnormalities and normal UACR with cardiovascular mortality. Hazard ratios and 95% CIs were estimated after adjusting for age, sex, ethnicity, education level, poverty income ratio, smoking status, physical activity level, estimated glomerular filtration rate, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Metabolic abnormalities were grouped according to the number of cumulative metabolic abnormality components: metabolic normal group (0 components), Pre-MetS group (1–2 components), and Mets group (3–5 components). A restricted cubic spline regression model was performed using 3 nodes at the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles of UACR