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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Microcirculation. 2011 Nov;18(8):655–662. doi: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2011.00134.x

Table 3.

Association between retinal vessel diameters and incident obesity, by current smoking

Current smoker, absent Current smoker, present

No. at risk
(cases)
Multivariable-adjusted
relative risk (95% confidence
interval)*
No. at risk
(cases)
Multivariable-adjusted
relative risk (95% confidence
interval)*
Retinal arteriolar diameter, μm
  Tertile 3 (156.0-199.7) 456 (107) 1 (referent) 97 (17) 1 (referent)
  Tertile 2 (144.6-155.9) 547 (128) 1.17 (0.87-1.58) 150 (44) 1.65 (1.00-2.72)
  Tertile 1 (89.8-144.5) 595 (141) 1.39 (0.99-1.96) 244 (49) 0.92 (0.45-1.88)
  p-trend 0.06 491 (110) 0.76
Retinal venular diameter, μm
  Tertile 1 (165.9- 220.0) 627 (122) 1 (referent) 72 (9) 1 (referent)
  Tertile 2 (220.1-237.3) 548 (136) 1.38 (1.04-1.84) 153 (38) 2.46 (1.10-5.52)
  Tertile 3 (237.3-339.7) 423 (118) 1.70 (1.21-2.38) 266 (63) 2.31 (1.01-5.32)
  p-trend 0.002 491 (110) 0.14
*

Adjusted for age (years), sex (men, women), education categories (<high school, high school, >high school), alcohol intake (never, former, current), exercise frequency (number of times per week), mean arterial blood pressure (mm Hg), serum total cholesterol (mg/dL), C-reactive protein (mg/dL), fellow vessel diameter (μm, central retinal arteriolar in models of central retinal venular diameter and vice-versa)