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Figure 4 Comparison of the magnitude of relative risk of future cardiovascular events associated with abnormal values of different risk factors or combination of risk factors. The data are derived from initially healthy women in the Nurses’ Health Study. In each case, relative risk is shown (black box) for individuals in the top versus the bottom quartile for each factor, 95% confidence intervals are shown by the horizontal lines. (Ridker [30]).
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