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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2011 Feb 24;364(8):719–729. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1010679

Figure 2. Association between the Body-Mass Index and the Risk of Death from Respiratory Diseases or Other Causes.

Figure 2

Hazard ratios are shown for the association between BMI and risk of death from respiratory diseases and from causes other than respiratory diseases, cardiovascular causes, or cancer (other) among East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans) and Indians and Bangladeshis. Panels A and B show the hazard ratios without confidence intervals, and Panels C and D show the same data with 95% confidence intervals (I bars). The analyses were adjusted for age, sex, educational level, urban or rural residence, marital status, and status with respect to baseline illnesses; data from subjects with less than 3 years of follow-up were excluded.