Table 4.

Significant anthropometric measurements of general and central obesity and 10-year predicted risk of CVD incidence and mortality by ethnicity

Ethnicity	General CVD (threshold=10%)	General CVD (threshold=20%)	Framingham (threshold=20%)
OR criterion
Australia	WHR, WC, BMI	WHR, WC, BMI	WHR, WC, BMI
UK and Ireland	WHR, WC, BMI	WHR	WHR, WC, BMI
Northern Europe	BMI, WC, WHR	WHR, WC, BMI	BMI, WHR, WC
Southern Europe	WHR, WC	WHR	WHR, WC
Asia	–	–	WC, WHR, BMI*

*p=0.054.

Each cell represents statistically significant anthropometric measures of obesity ordered corresponding to ORs, from the highest to lowest.

BMI, body mass index; WC, waist circumference; WHR, waist-to-hip ratio.