The question is if women have less abdominal obesity, why would you find this elevated risk in women?

他提的问题是如果女性比较少患腹部肥胖,为什么在这里女性的患病风险比较高

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You see the African-American individuals have a somewhat lower risk, although not a lot, from the white people individuals in this study, but the Mexican-Americans have elevated risk compared to the other two races.

非裔美国人患病风险相对较低,尽管在这项研究中,他们与白人之间的差异并不显著,但与这两个种族相比,墨西哥裔美国人患病风险则比较高

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You just say that arbitrarily this group, the reference group, let's say the group with the lowest weights, or the lowest cholesterol or anything, you say their risk is one, and then you look to see how everybody else's risk is compared to that.

可以随意地设定一个群组,作为参照组,我们可以假设是体重最低的一组,或者胆固醇水平最低的一组或者其他,将参照组的风险设为1,然后就可以比较参照组与其他组的风险

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