1. Metabolic mediators of body-mass index and cardiovascular risk
Arnaud Chiolero, Jay S Kaufman 
The Lancet 
Volume 383, Issue 9934, (June 2014)
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2. Figure
Directed acyclic graph of causal relations between adiposity, metabolic mediators, and cardiovascular disease
CVD=cardiovascular disease. M=metabolic mediators. C=confounders. C1 are confounders of the association between adiposity and CVD. C2 are confounders of the association between M and CVD.
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