Fig. 3.

Dose–response relationship between WC and HBP. WC and HBP outcomes in the total study population (a), male study population (b) and female study population (c). The associations were adjusted for age, marital status, alcohol consumption, smoking, physical activity, area, cancer, stroke, psychotic illness and blood glucose (serum levels of glucose). The solid lines and gray areas represent the estimated ORs and their 95% CIs. The gray dashed lines represent the corresponding WC when the OR is 1, and the black dashed lines represent the WC corresponding to the point where the slope changes the most