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Fig. 2 | BMC Public Health

Fig. 2

From: Joint and interactive associations of body mass index and genetic factors with cardiovascular disease: a prospective study in UK Biobank

Fig. 2

Risk of incident CVD according to BMI categories and genetic risk groups. The hazard ratios for CVD according to BMI categories and PRS categories in the HTN (A), AF (B), CHD (C), Stroke (D), HF (E) cohort were estimated using Cox proportional hazard models with adjustment for age, sex, ethnicity, education, employment status, household income, smoking status, drink frequency, healthy diet, IPAQ, Townsend deprivation index, the top two pollution principal components, and the top four principal components of ancestry and genotyping batch. Definition of abbreviations: AF atrial fibrillation, CHD coronary heart disease, CVD cardiovascular disease, CI confidence interval, HF heart failure, HTN hypertension, NA not applicable

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