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Figure 1 | BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

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From: The "lipid accumulation product" performs better than the body mass index for recognizing cardiovascular risk: a population-based comparison

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Age-specific distributions by waist circumference and fasting triglyceride concentrations, from NHANES III. For consecutive age groups the population density is increasingly displaced away from the hypothetical origin points of zero lipid accumulation (solid triangles). For clarity of presentation, the bubble plots omit the extreme outlying values for WC and TG.

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