Figure 1.

Joint evaluation of selected measures of body composition in Cardiovascular Health Study participants in relation to incident coronary heart disease, United States, 1989–2007 (A and B). All models were adjusted for the indicated adiposity measure plus age, sex, race (black, nonblack), smoking status (never, former, current), physical activity, alcoholic drinks/week (0, <7, 7–13, ≥14), educational attainment (less than high school, high-school graduate, college or higher), serum creatinine, hormone replacement therapy (women), systolic blood pressure, antihypertensive medication use, diabetes, prediabetes, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, use of aspirin, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein. Adj., adjusted; BMI, body mass index; BMI50, body mass index at age 50 years; CHD, coronary heart disease; FFM, fat-free mass; FM, fat mass; HC, hip circumference; WC, waist circumference; WHR, waist/hip ratio.