Combining Body Mass and Shape Indices in Clinical Practice

Table 1

Anthropometric quantities and calculated relative risks means and standard deviations.

	BMI	ABSI	-BMI	-ABSI	RR-BMI	RR-ABSI	RR-comb
All	36.2 9.4	0.079 0.006	1.36 1.59	−0.35 1.24	1.17 0.29	1.00 0.35	1.16 0.43
Women	35.0 8.9	0.078 0.006	0.99 1.31	−0.26 1.21	1.12 0.24	1.03 0.36	1.13 0.43
Men	39.4 9.9	0.080 0.005	2.16 1.89	−0.58 1.31	1.30 0.35	0.95 0.32	1.21 0.44