Fig 1.
Selection of the study population.
Fig 2.
Overview on the five regions.
Fig 3.
Percentage of 40–69 year old men without cardiovascular diseases with low, moderate and high 10-year CVD mortality risk* *low risk: SCORE<1%; moderate risk: SCORE 1-<5%; high risk: SCORE≥5% and/or any of the risk factors (diabetes, renal insufficiency, stage 3 hypertension or total cholesterol ≥ 8 mmol/l).
Fig 4.
Percentage of 40–69 year old women without cardiovascular diseases with low, moderate and high risk 10-year CVD mortality risk* *low risk: SCORE<1%; moderate risk: SCORE 1-<5%; high risk: SCORE≥5% and/or any of the risk factors (diabetes, renal insufficiency, stage 3 hypertension or total cholesterol ≥ 8 mmol/l).
Table 1.
Characteristics of the 40–69 year old study population without cardiovascular diseases (n = 3,498, % are weighted population estimates).
Table 2.
Percentage of 40–69 year old men without cardiovascular diseases with a high 10-year CVD mortality risk* according to SES, region and community size.
Table 3.
Percentage of 40–69 year old women without cardiovascular diseases with a high 10-year CVD mortality risk* according to SES, region and community size.
Fig 5.
Contribution of single risk factors* to the high risk group in 40–69 year old men and women without cardiovascular diseases *Stepwise definition of the high risk group: First of all, the percentage of individuals with a SCORE ≥ 5% (including individuals with diabetes and other risk factors) were calculated, then the percentage of individuals with diabetes and finally, the percentage of individuals with any of the remaining risk factors (renal insufficiency, stage 3 hypertension or total cholesterol ≥ 8 mmol/l).