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Thomas L. Higgins, MD; Fawzy G. Estafanous, MD; Floyd D. Loop, MD; Gerald J. Beck, PhD; James M. Blum, MS; Lata Paranandi, MSHP
Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic Foundation

JAMA. 1992;268(14):1857.

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—We thank Dr Kral for the opportunity to correct a misprint in the abstract of our recent article.¹ Increased risk was noted with body weight of 65 kg or less, as is correctly stated in the text and tables. The median weight of men in this study was 81 kg; that of females was 67 kg. Increased weight in either group was associated with decreased mortality, although one could argue for use of a different cutoff point by gender. We also agree with Kral that body mass index is preferable to body weight as a measure of size, but our initial data set did not include height. A multicenter validation of this score is planned, and any update of this model will include body mass index rather than body weight.

Risk factors examined separately for men and women were similar except that body weight disappears in multivariate . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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