Fig. 3

The forest plots show the associations between TyG, TyG-WC, and TyG-WHtR indices with all-cause and cause-specific mortality of the MetS population. B(A) the association between TyG, TyG-WC, and TyG-WHtR indices with all-cause mortality; (B) the association between TyG, TyG-WC, and TyG-WHtR indices with cardiovascular mortality; (C) the association between TyG, TyG-WC, and TyG-WHtR indices with diabetes mortality. The results were adjusted for age, gender, race, marital status, educational level, family income-poverty ratio, smoking status, alcohol use, cancer, CKD, CVD, BMI (only for TyG index), energy intake, serum levels of TC, HDL-C, LDL-C, BUN, UA, eGFR, ALT, AST, ALB, and TBil. A P-value < 0.017 was considered significant, as we had to correct our analysis for multiple testing (P-value of 0.017 was calculated as: 0.05 divided by 3). TyG: triglyceride-glucose; WC: waist circumference; WHtR: waist-to-height ratio; TC: total cholesterol; CKD: chronic kidney disease; CVD: cardiovascular disease; eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate; BUN: blood urea nitrogen; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; UA: uric acid; ALT: glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; AST: aspartate transaminase; ALB: albumin; TBil: total bilirubin; BMI: body mass index