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Published in final edited form as: Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2013 Jul 8;27(4):481–500. doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2013.05.013

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Age-adjusted ischemic heart disease mortality risk by fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels among nondiabetics aged 40–79 years, Rancho Bernardo, CA, 1972–1987[43]. Linear association in men and threshold at 110 mg/dl in women = relatively greater importance of glucose in women than men. (Scheidt-Nave C, Barrett-Connor E, Wingard DL, Cohn BA, Edelstein SL: Sex differences in fasting glycemia as a risk factor for ischemic heart disease death. Am J Epidemiol 1991; 133(6): 565–76. By permission of Oxford University Press.)