Table 2

HRs (with 95% CIs) for independent predictors of coronary heart disease mortality

	White	South Asian	Ethnicity interaction
	White	South Asian	p Value
Age (years)	1.12 (1.11 to 1.14)	1.11 (1.08 to 1.15)	0.30
Female sex	0.53 (0.40 to 0.70)	0.50 (0.19 to 1.31)	0.16
BMI (kg/m²)^*	1.06 (0.73 to 1.54)	0.53 (0.22 to 1.28)	0.02
Hypertension	1.35 (0.90 to 2.03)	1.15 (0.44 to 3.00)	0.61
Diabetes	1.95 (1.30 to 2.92)	2.34 (1.12 to 4.87)	0.60
Existing cardiovascular disease	2.16 (1.58 to 2.94)	2.34 (1.08 to 5.08)	0.90
Current smoking	1.95 (1.33 to 2.86)	1.95 (0.92 to 4.15)	0.78
Physical activity (weekly)	0.48 (0.34 to 0.66)	0.29 (0.11 to 0.78)	0.79
Education (>GCSE level)	0.62 (0.40 to 0.97)	0.52 (0.20 to 1.37)	0.60
Income (>£18 200)^*	0.63 (0.41 to 0.99)	0.74 (0.23 to 2.38)	0.22
Occupation (ref=manual/long-term unemployed)
Non-manual	0.58 (0.41 to 0.82)	0.51 (0.20 to 1.27)
Professional/managerial	0.53 (0.34 to 0.82)	0.79 (0.27 to 2.33)	0.46

Adjusted for age and sex. Ethnicity × risk factor interactions performed using models including both South Asian and white participants.
↵* Missing data (1945 missing BMI values, 2822 missing income values).
BMI, body mass index.