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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 9.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 May 1;16(7):1545–1551. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.248

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Mean BMI and 95% confidence interval within each vital exhaustion (VE) quartile by race–gender group, the Atherosclerosis Risk in the Communities (ARIC) study, 1990–1998. Models were adjusted for age, field center, level of education, smoking status, drinking status, and marital status. VE score range 0–42—Quartiles: none, ≤3; low, 4–8; moderate, 9–15; high, ≥16. *Significantly different from the no VE quartile (P < 0.05).