aSchool of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University

bGuangzhou Twelfth People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China

cInstitute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

dSchool of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Correspondence to Lin Xu, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, 74 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China. Tel: +86 20 87335523; fax: +86 20 87330446; e-mail: [email protected]

Abbreviations: BIC, Bayesian Information Criteria; BP, blood pressure; CI, confidence interval; CVD, cardiovascular disease; FPG, fasting plasma glucose; GBCS, Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study; GZCDC, Guangzhou Centre for Disease Control and Prevention; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; ICD-10, 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases; IHD, ischemic heart disease; LCMM, latent class mixed model; MI, myocardial infarction; SD, standard deviation; WHR, waist-to-hip ratio

Received 15 February, 2022

Revised 12 May, 2022

Accepted 13 May, 2022

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