aDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, bMRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge and cMRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, UK.
Sponsorship: The EPIC-Norfolk study is supported by research programme funding from the Cancer Research Campaign and Medical Research Council with additional grants from the Stroke Association, British Heart Foundation, Department of Health, Europe Against Cancer Programme Commission of the European Union, Food Standards Agency and Wellcome Trust.
A portion of the results shown in this paper has been presented at the 16th IEA World Congress of Epidemiology (18–22 August 2003, Montreal, Canada) and at the International Congress of Obesity 2002 (24–29 August 2003, Sao Paulo, Brazil). Presentations in both meetings were entitled ‘Abdominal obesity and cardiovascular disease in older men and women: the EPIC-Norfolk (UK) results'. However, no substantial portion of this current paper has been published.
Correspondence to Dexter Canoy, MPhil MD PhD, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Site, Worts’ Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)1223 740168 or 740170; fax: +44 (0)1223 740177; e-mail: [email protected]
Received 15 December 2003 Revised 3 June 2004 Accepted 15 June 2003
