Table 3.

Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) for all-cause mortality associated with anthropometric measurements and indices in white and African American participants in the Pennington Center Longitudinal Study.

	BMI	Waist Circumference	BAI	WHtR	WHR
White Americans
N	9582	7745	6847	7745	6844
Person-years	82,875	73,756	70,359	73,756	70,337
Deaths	297	264	260	264	259
Model 1	1.36 (1.22 - 1.52)	1.44 (1.27 - 1.63)	1.36 (1.19 - 1.55)	1.48 (1.31 - 1.67)	1.43 (1.26 - 1.64)
Model 2	1.34 (1.19 - 1.50)	1.41 (1.25 - 1.60)	1.34 (1.17 - 1.53)	1.46 (1.28 - 1.65)	1.40 (1.23 - 1.61)
Model 3	1.31 (1.16 - 1.47)	1.40 (1.24 - 1.59)	1.34 (1.17 - 1.54)	1.46 (1.29 - 1.66)	1.44 (1.25 - 1.64)
Model 4	1.30 (1.15 - 1.47)	1.38 (1.21 - 1.58)	1.33 (1.15 - 1.52)	1.44 (1.27 - 1.64)	1.41 (1.23 - 1.62)
African Americans
N	4761	3861	3256	3861	3256
Person-years	37,762	33,565	31,486	33,565	31,486
Deaths	141	124	119	124	119
Model 1	1.01 (0.84 - 1.22)	1.19 (0.98 - 1.45)	0.93 (0.74 - 1.16)	1.13 (0.93 - 1.38)	1.07 (0.99 - 1.15)
Model 2	1.01 (0.83 - 1.22)	1.18 (0.97 - 1.45)	0.93 (0.74 - 1.16)	1.12 (0.92 - 1.37)	1.06 (0.98 - 1.16)
Model 3	1.03 (0.85 - 1.26)	1.23 (1.01 - 1.50)	0.96 (0.76 - 1.22)	1.16 (0.95 - 1.42)	1.06 (0.98 - 1.15)
Model 4	1.03 (0.85 - 1.26)	1.23 (1.00 - 1.51)	0.97 (0.77 - 1.23)	1.16 (0.94 - 1.43)	1.06 (0.98 - 1.16)

Model 1: total sample, including age, sex, and exam year as covariates.

Model 2: total sample, including age, sex, exam year, study code, smoking, alcohol consumption and exercise as covariates.

Model 3: participants without heart disease, stroke or cancer at baseline; including age, sex, and exam year as covariates.

Model 4: participants without heart disease, stroke or cancer at baseline; including age, sex, exam year, study code, smoking, alcohol consumption and exercise as covariates.

BMI: body mass index; BAI: body adiposity index; WHtR: waist circumference to height ratio; WHR: waist to hip circumference ratio. Hazard ratios are expressed per standard deviation of each independent variable.