Figure 2.

Sex-specific relevance of diabetes at study recruitment to occlusive vascular mortality at ages 35–89 years, by baseline BMI (A), total cholesterol (B), systolic blood pressure (C), and smoking status (D)

Each risk factor was split into three strata; approximate thirds for the range of values for BMI, total cholesterol, and systolic blood pressure, and three categories for smoking status. Analyses are stratified by study and adjusted for age at risk, BMI, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, and smoking status (apart from the analyses stratified by smoking status). Each diamond is the inverse-variance weighted average of the two estimates for men and women. The size of the block reflects the amount of statistical information (ie, the inverse-variance of the log death RR). RR=rate ratio. *Includes ex-smokers of any type of tobacco, current smokers of other types of tobacco, or smoking status not known.