Fig. 2

Hazard ratios for all-cause and cause-specific mortality according to anthropometric measures. Multivariate models were adjusted for baseline age, sex, marital status, education, residence, smoking status, drinking status, regular exercise, intake of fruit, intake of vegetables, intake of meat, intake of fish, body mass index, hypertension, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer, and further adjusted for calf circumference in the waist circumference model, waist circumference in the calf circumference model, and waist circumference and calf circumference in the body mass index model. IR, incidence rate (per 1000 person-years); HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; Q, quartile