Coronary heart disease risk factors and prevalence of myocardial infarction, angina, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease in people aged 35–64 years who did and did not have serum cholesterol measurement
| Men | Women | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cholesterol measured | Cholesterol not measured | Cholesterol measured | Cholesterol not measured | ||||
| Serum cholesterol (mmol/l) | 6.1 (0.03) | – | 6.0 (0.03) | – | |||
| Number | 1812 | 396 | 2151 | 550 | |||
| Age (years) | 48.7 (0.21) | 49.2 (0.46) | 48.7 (0.19) | 49.7 (0.40)1-150 | |||
| Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) | 134.5 (0.43) | 137.1 (0.76) | 129.4 (0.43) | 132.8 (0.63)1-150 | |||
| Smokers (%) | 35.4 | 46.21-160 | 36.0 | 44.71-160 | |||
| Diabetes (%) | 2.5 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 4.01-150 | |||
| Lipid lowering drugs (%) | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |||
| Myocardial infarction (%) | 5.0 | 5.8 | 1.6 | 2.7 | |||
| Angina (%) | 5.6 | 7.1 | 4.5 | 4.7 | |||
| Stroke (%) | 1.7 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 2.2 | |||
| Peripheral vascular disease (%) | 2.2 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 2.2 | |||