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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 9.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2010 Aug 17;35(2):300–308. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2010.137

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Comparison of linear relationships between residual BMI and circulating CRP observationally and when estimated employing the CRP locus rs3091244 as an instrument for log transformed CRP.

X and Y axes represent CRP and residual BMI respectively.

Light blue points represent a scatter plot of the correlation between circulating CRP and residual BMI.

Grey areas represents 95% confidence regions around instrumental variables estimates.

Black area represents 95% confidence regions around simple linear regression estimates.

(The 50 individuals with extreme residual BMI over 20 kg/m2 are not shown on the plot but were included in the analyses that gave the fitted lines and confidence regions.)