A New Body Shape Index Predicts Mortality Hazard Independently of Body Mass Index
Figure 4
Mortality hazard by ABSI, BMI, and WC.
Estimates are from proportional hazard modeling where log mortality hazard is a smoothing-spline function in ABSI, BMI, or WC. Dashed curves show 95% confidence intervals. Corresponding population percentiles are given in the top axis; the range shown is the 1st through 99th percentiles. The vertical axis is logarithmic. This is the same as Figure 2, but with ABSI, BMI, or WC, rather than their z scores, used as predictors. Units are for ABSI,
for BMI, and
for WC.