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For instance a BMI ≥ 85 thpercentile (for age and sex) was classified as being overweight, and those with a BMI ≥ 95 thpercentile as obese [ 29 30 31 32 ] . Recent workshops concluded that the BMI is an index of choice for evaluating obesity in adolescents, because it has been validated by studies of total body fat [ 32 ] . The criteria used to identify overweight and obesity in children and adolescents agree with those used for grade 1 and grade 2 overweight (BMI of 25+ and 30+, respectively) in adults [ 33 ] . Using a representative sample from the general North American Caucasian population, we demonstrate that the BMI is also a good indicator for obesity in adolescents, however the readily-measured WC:AC, CPR, and STR, indices of central obesity, and SUM, a single measure of subcutaneous adiposity, are stronger predictor of both fasting glucose and insulin levels and lipid profiles, than BMI.
Due to the small number of cases and the possibility for collinearity in the predictor set, subset regressions were also run first with only age and year entered, then only gender and year entered, then only the set of occupational dummies and year entered.
Impaired pulmonary function is a strong predictor of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in the general population independent of smoking [ 1 2 3 4 ] . The factors that influence pulmonary function are not completely understood and oxidant exposure could play a negative role [ 5 6 7 ] . Support for this hypothesis comes from studies that report a positive association between antioxidant vitamin status and lung function [ 8 9 10 11 ] . Several studies have indicated that alcohol exposure may contribute to oxidative burden and, therefore, it may be linked to impaired pulmonary function through oxidant-antioxidant mechanisms [ 12 13 14 15 ] . However, while alcohol itself can act as an oxidant, wine has antioxidant properties [ 12 13 16 17 ] .
One can also include other prognostic factors in the model, and direct shaving to find a gene cluster whose column average is a strong predictor in the model.
In local regression, one goes beyond computing the local average of a set of measured points by estimating, at each value of the predictor variables, all of the coefficients in a P th-order regression in which the regression coefficients themselves are slowly varying functions of the predictor variable.
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