Figure 2.
Stratified analysis of the associations between BMI-adjusted anthropometric indices and cIMT by sex, smoking status, age, SBP and BMI*
*Model adjusted for age, education level, BMI (except when BMI was the main variable), smoking status, and SBP level (stratifying variable were not included except for age); coefficients and p values were calculated with anthropometric variable included as continuous variable; p for interaction was calculated by adding an interaction term produced by multiplying the corresponding anthropometric variable and stratifying variable (dichotomous); SDs (standard deviation) are 6.68 cm, 4.65 cm, 4.04 cm, 2.01 cm, 0.08, 0.07, 4.56 kg/m2 for BMI-adjusted waist, hip, upper thigh, mid-arm circumferences, WHR, WHtR and BMI, respectively.