Table 3. Relative risks (RR) and 95% confidence intervals for cause-specific deaths in non-Hispanic black never smokers ^a.

	Body Mass Index
	18–<20	20–<25	25–<30	30–<35	35–≤50
Cardiovascular disease death
Death (n)	2	36	80	54	46
Multivariate RRb	0.64 (0.15, 2.66)	1.00	1.12 (0.75, 1.66)	1.46 (0.95, 2.23)	2.33 (1.48, 3.65)
Cancer death
Death (n)	5	33	64	50	30
Multivariate RR	1.85 (0.72, 4.75)	1.00	0.97 (0.64, 1.48)	1.34 (0.86, 2.08)	1.38 (0.83, 2.29)
Other causes of death
Death (n)	6	18	40	41	31
Multivariate RR	3.85 (1.52, 9.72)	1.00	1.10 (0.63, 1.93)	2.07 (1.18, 3.61)	2.60 (1.43, 4.72)

^a.Never smokers who did not have any prevalent cancer except non-melanoma skin cancer or heart disease at baseline.

^b.Adjusted for age, sex, education (less than high school, high school graduate, some college, and college graduate/postgraduate), marital status (married and not married), physical activity (never/rare, ≤3 times/mo, and 1–2 and ≥3 times/wk), alcohol consumption (0, >0–<15, 15–<30, and ≥30 g/day) and menopausal hormone therapy use in women (never, ever).