Appendix Table B.2:

High Waist-to-Height Ratio (≥0.5) Mortality Risk for Death Before Age 75 or Age 65, 1988–2015 NHANES-LMF

	Before Age 75				Before Age 65
	HR		95% CI		HR		95% CI
High Waist-to-Height Ratio (≥0.5)	1.69	**	1.22	2.34	1.88	*	1.10	3.20
High WtHR X Education (ref. BA+)
Less than HS	0.58	*	0.38	0.90	0.62		0.32	1.22
HS or Some College	0.68	*	0.47	0.99	0.70		0.40	1.24
Education (ref. BA+)
Less than HS	3.50	***	2.36	5.17	3.97	***	2.02	7.83
HS or Some College	2.27	***	1.62	3.19	2.42	**	1.35	4.34
Cohort (ref. 1945–1954)
1915–1924	1.22		0.90	1.65	-		-
1925–1934	1.19		0.96	1.48	0.98		0.70	1.37
1935–1944	1.04		0.84	1.27	1.18		0.91	1.52
1955–1964	0.91		0.73	1.13	0.93		0.75	1.17
1965–1974	1.21		0.85	1.71	1.19		0.84	1.70
1975–1984	1.35		0.60	3.02	1.33		0.59	2.96
Female	0.74	***	0.67	0.82	0.75	***	0.66	0.86
Race/Ethnicity (ref. NH White)
NH Black	1.43	***	1.29	1.58	1.63	***	1.40	1.90
MX-American	1.43	***	1.26	1.62	1.57	***	1.32	1.86
Other	1.00		0.80	1.24	0.98		0.72	1.33
Foreign born	0.75	**	0.64	0.90	0.84		0.66	1.07
Region (ref. Northeast)
Midwest	1.01		0.85	1.20	0.90		0.69	1.18
South	1.12		0.99	1.27	1.02		0.83	1.27
West	0.98		0.85	1.13	0.87		0.66	1.14
Smoking Status (ref. Never)
Former	1.34	***	1.19	1.50	1.29	**	1.09	1.53
Current	2.45	***	2.21	2.72	2.15	***	1.78	2.59

Notes:

N=40,058; N(dead <75)=4,014; N(dead <65)=2,011.

Significance based on two-tailed t-test, indicated as:

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01;

^***p<0.001.