Table 1.
Relative Risks for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and Stroke for different conditions
| Risk factor | CHD RR | Reference | Stroke RR |
Reference |
| Hypertension | 1.91 | [33] | 4 | [34] |
| Tobacco use | 1.68 | [24] | 2 | [35] |
| Hypercholesterolemia | 2.5 | 1 | [36] | |
| More than 5% CVD global risk * | 8.84 | [4,5] | 8.84 | [4] |
| More than 10% CVD global risk* | 13.12 | 13.12 | ||
| More than 20% CVD global risk* | 18.8 | 18.8 |
CVD: Cardiovascular disease.
* Local Population-based age and sex specific prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and its observed distribution were used. Then, we derived global CVD risk using Framingham Risk Equation (25) to estimate CVD risk in each stratum (more than 5%, more an 10% and more than 20%)