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Waist to Hip Ratio as a Supplement to Body Mass Index—Reply
Gang Hu, MD, PhD;
Jaakko Tuomilehto, MD, PhD;
Karri Silventoinen, PhD;
Pekka Jousilahti, MD, PhD
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We appreciate Hartz and Rimm for their comments on our results regarding BMI, waist circumference, and WHR and the risk of total and type-specific stroke.1 We agree with their first comment that the article would be valuable if more than 1 obesity indicator were included in the same regression equation. We have reanalyzed our data and included both BMI and WHR in the multivariate model. After adjustment for age, study year, smoking, and WHR, hazard ratios of ischemic stroke among subjects who were underweight (BMI [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared] <18.5), overweight (BMI, 25.0-29.9), and obese (BMI  30.0) were 0 (no ischemic cases), 1.41 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.96-2.07), and 1.75 (95% CI, 1.12-2.76), respectively, among men, and 5.94 (95% CI, 2.11-16.7), 1.26 (95% CI, 0.84-1.90), and . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Waist to Hip Ratio as a Supplement to Body Mass Index
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Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(2):237-238.
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Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, and Waist-Hip Ratio on the Risk of Total and Type-Specific Stroke
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Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(13):1420-1427.
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