Table 1 Presence of history of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors among Korean adults aged 40 and over, overall and stratified by sex.
Cardiovascular disease and its risk factors | Weighted prevalence % (95% CI) | P value for comparison between sex groups | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Total (n = 20,016) | Male (n = 8587) | Female (n = 11,429) | ||
Diabetes | < 0.001 | |||
Yes | 10.4 (9.9–10.9) | 11.2 (10.4–12.0) | 9.6 (9.0–10.3) | |
No | 89.6 (89.1–90.1) | 88.8 (88.0–89.6) | 90.4 (89.7–91.0) | |
Hypertension | < 0.001 | |||
Yes | 35.5 (34.4–36.7) | 36.4 (34.7–38.1) | 34.7 (33.2–36.3) | |
No | 63.6 (63.3–65.6) | 63.6 (61.9–65.3) | 65.3 (63.7–66.8) | |
Coronary artery diseases | 0.037 | |||
Yes | 2.9 (2.6–3.2) | 3.2 (2.8–3.6) | 2.6 (2.3–3.0) | |
No | 97.1 (96.8–97.4) | 96.8 (96.4–97.2) | 97.4 (97.0–97.7) | |
Stroke | 0.016 | |||
Yes | 2.1 (1.9–2.4) | 2.4 (2.1–2.8) | 1.9 (1.6–2.2) | |
No | 97.9 (97.6–98.1) | 97.6 (97.2–97.7) | 98.1 (97.8–98.4) | |
Obesity | 0.007 | |||
Yes | 35.5 (34.7–36.4) | 36.7 (35.4–38.0) | 34.4 (33.3–35.5) | |
No | 64.5 (63.6–65.3) | 63.3 (62.0–64.6) | 65.6 (64.5–66.7) | |
Abdominal obesity | < 0.001 | |||
Yes | 29.8 (28.9–30.7) | 28.1 (26.9–29.4) | 31.2 (30.3–32.5) | |
No | 70.2 (69.3–71.1) | 71.9 (70.6–73.1) | 68.8 (67.5–70.0) | |
Hypertriglyceridemia | < 0.001 | |||
Yes | 39.1 (38.2–40.0) | 45.2 (43.8–46.6) | 33.3 (32.2–65.5) | |
No | 60.9 (60.0–61.8) | 54.8 (53.4–562) | 66.7 (65.5–67.8) | |
Low HDL | < 0.001 | |||
Yes | 47.9 (47.0–48.9) | 37.4 (36.1–38.7) | 57.7 (56.5–58.9) | |
No | 52.1 (51.1–53.0) | 62.6 (61.3–63.9) | 42.3 (41.1–43.5) | |
