Figure 1.
Estimated mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures by age and gender in the Latin American Consortium of Studies in Obesity (LASO).
Panels show average blood pressure derived from censored normal regressions. All point estimates are provided with 95% confidence intervals. A) Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg); and, B) Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg).
Figure 2.
Prevalence of selected cardiovascular risk factors in the Latin American and the Caribbean population by age group and gender.
All point estimates are provided with 95% confidence intervals. A) Hypertension; B) Diabetes; C) Smokers; D) High total cholesterol; E) Low HDL cholesterol; and, F) Obese.
Table 1.
Prevalence (%) of cardiovascular risk factor in the Latin American and the Caribbean population by gender.
Table 2.
Age- and gender-adjusted prevalence ratios for major cardiovascular risk comparing each country against all the countries from Latin American and the Caribbean included in this study.
Figure 3.
Mean values of selected cardiovascular risk factors in the Latin American and the Caribbean and the US population by age group and gender.
All point estimates are provided with 95% confidence intervals. A) Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg); B) Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg); C) Total cholesterol (mmol/L); D) HDL cholesterol (mmol/L); E) Glucose (mmol/L); and, F) Body mass index (Kg/m2).
Table 3.
Crude prevalence (%) of cardiovascular risk factors in the United States and the Latin American and the Caribbean populations, and age- and gender-adjusted prevalence ratios.