The Burden of Blood-Pressure-Related Cardiovascular Mortality in Mexico
Figure 1
Percent mortality from all cardiovascular diseases attributable to higher-than-optimal systolic blood pressure in the population of Mexico aged 50 and over in 2010. The curve represents the smoothed distribution of systolic blood pressure (SBP) in the 2005-2006 Mexican sample based on SBP categories. The risk line represents the internationally-based relative risk values of cardiovascular mortality corresponding to each SBP category. The numbers at the heads of the bars indicate the percentages of all cardiovascular deaths occurred in Mexico in 2010 attributable to each category of SBP, by age.
