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The model's prediction of the relative risk of breast cancer associated with BMI in postmenopausal women is compared to the relative risks reported in five studies [16–20]. All relative risks are rescaled to use a BMI of 23 as the reference value. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals and are missing from data points used as reference values in the original studies.
