Table 4.

 Distribution of cardiovascular disease risk factors by ethnic group in men and women in derivation cohort; figures are age standardised

	Means						Percentages
	Age at entry	Townsend score	Systolic blood pressure	BMI	Total cholesterol/HDL ratio		Family history of CHD	Current smoker	Treated hypertension	Type 2 diabetes	Rheumatoid arthritis	Atrial fibrillation	Chronic renal disease
Women
White/not recorded	54	−0.65	133	26.1	3.9		12.7	25.4	7.0	1.5	0.9	0.4	0.2
Indian	50	1.06	130	26.4	4.0		18.5	8.1	9.6	11.7	1.3	0.2	0.2
Pakistani	49	2.58	129	28.4	4.3		12.1	5.8	7.7	14.2	1.4	0.4	0.5
Bangladeshi	49	5.77	126	26.1	4.6		6.3	12.8	9.5	14.4	0.9	0.2	0.3
Other Asian	49	2.09	130	25.4	4.0		11.2	10.5	9.6	7.1	0.4	0.2	0.4
Black Caribbean	51	3.66	136	28.7	3.5		9.1	15.9	24.8	10.3	1.0	0.2	0.3
Black African	48	4.19	138	29.4	3.6		4.5	4.4	17.3	6.8	0.3	0.2	0.1
Chinese	49	1.95	125	23.4	3.7		6.2	6.1	9.8	5.2	0.8	0.1	0.4
Other	49	2.80	131	27.0	3.8		11.3	18.2	13.6	6.4	1.0	0.1	0.4
Men
White/not recorded	52	−0.5	136	26.6	4.5		9.7	32.2	5.5	2.1	0.4	0.6	0.1
Indian	48	1.1	133	25.7	4.6		16.8	23.7	12.0	13.3	0.4	0.3	0.4
Pakistani	48	2.6	131	26.3	4.9		13.0	32.9	5.7	12.0	0.2	0.2	0.2
Bangladeshi	48	5.5	126	25.0	5.2		5.9	53.2	6.4	16.8	0.8	0.1	0.2
Other Asian	48	2.2	132	25.5	4.7		9.1	28.3	8.3	10.3	0.2	0.3	0.1
Black Caribbean	53	3.7	136	26.7	3.9		6.4	40.6	14.0	9.0	0.3	0.3	0.4
Black African	47	4.3	139	26.6	4.0		3.2	16.6	15.6	8.6	0.3	0.3	0.6
Chinese	50	2.5	127	24.0	4.3		4.2	28.0	6.1	3.8	0.0	0.3	0.3
Other	49	3.0	134	26.5	4.4		8.5	34.4	9.3	7.9	0.4	0.3	0.3

BMI=body mass index; HDL=high density lipoprotein cholesterol; CHD=coronary heart disease.