Figure 5.

Hazard ratios of the composite outcome of coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke according to presence of the metabolic syndrome by increasing body mass index (BMI) in (A) white women, (B) black women, and (C) Hispanic women. Healthy-weight women with <3 (0, 1, or 2) metabolic abnormalities were used as the reference in all models; models were adjusted for age, smoking, and hormone use at baseline and stratified by hormone therapy trial study arm and hysterectomy status. The shaded regions around the lines gives the 95% confidence band, the standard error, for the mean. *Please note that the scale of the y-axis differs for white (0 to 3), black (0 to 10), and Hispanic (0 to 80) women, so the widths of the CIs are not comparable.