Results of the Joint model for the association between longitudinal high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) values and metabolic syndrome (MetS)
| Parameters | β | SE | z value | P value | RR (95% CI) |
| Longitudinal submodel | |||||
| Fixed effects | |||||
| Intercept | 1.4902 | 0.0053 | 278.8231 | 0.0001 | |
| Age | 0.0018 | 0.0004 | 4.6674 | 0.0001 | |
| Gender | −0.2372 | 0.0094 | −25.1171 | 0.0001 | |
| Time:age | 0.0007 | 0.0002 | 4.6345 | 0.0001 | |
| Time:gender | −0.0147 | 0.0040 | −3.7158 | 0.0002 | |
| Random effects | |||||
| σb00 | 0.2439 | ||||
| σb10 | 0.0316 | ||||
| ε | 0.1636 | ||||
| Survival submodel | |||||
| Age | 0.0332 | 0.0045 | 7.3568 | 0.0001 | 1.0338 (1.0246 to 1.0429) |
| Gender | 0.1732 | 0.0876 | 1.9778 | 0.0479 | 1.1891 (1.0016 to 1.4116) |
| Age:gender | −0.0125 | 0.0062 | −2.0066 | 0.0448 | 0.9876 (0.9756 to 0.9997) |
| Assoct | −2.9380 | 0.2098 | −14.0048 | 0.0001 | 0.0529 (0.0351 to 0.0799) |
AIC, 4729.97.
RR, relative risk.