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To the Editor: In an analysis of the relation between body-mass index and mortality from the large and important Cancer Prevention Study II, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, Calle et al. (Oct. 7 issue)¹ concluded that obesity was a less important predictor of mortality among black women than among white women. That conclusion may be somewhat misleading, because it was based largely on the comparison of relative risks in the two racial groups. The data in Table 2 of the article (presented here in Figure 1) show that mortality increases as body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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