Research Article

10-Year Cardiovascular Disease Risk Estimation Based on Lipid Profile-Based and BMI-Based Framingham Risk Scores across Multiple Sociodemographic Characteristics: The Malaysian Cohort Project

Table 1

Descriptive comparison between the genders for the Framingham Risk Score related variables based on the baseline of The Malaysian Cohort subjects, 2006-2012 (n=53,122).

CharacteristicsMale
(n=22,663)
Female
(n=30,459)
MeanSD95% CI of MeanSD95 CI of

Age (in years)49.727.8548.277.63
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)128.9217.00124.2719.37
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)215.453.9213.652.7
HDL (mg/dL)46.014.856.820.5
Total cholesterol: HDL (ratio)4.801.373.911.17
BMI (kg/m2)25.55.025.66.4
Being smoker30.930.3 - 31.51.41.3 - 1.6
Being diabetic18.317.8 - 18.813.212.9 - 13.6
10-year risk estimate of CVD based on lipid profile-based formula (%)12.13.4.5.
10-year risk estimate of CVD based on BMI-based formula (%)13.14.4.5.

CI, confidence interval; F, frequency; n, sample size; SD, standard deviation.
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