Patients who experienced a fatal or non-fatal cardiovascular event specified according the ICD codes

Disease	Codes	Number (fatal)
Ischemic heart disease	410–414	273 (84)
peripheral arterial disease (PAOD)	440, 443, 444	40 (14)
aortic aneurysm	441	19 (15)
cerebrovascular disease	430–438	59 (27)
non-rheumatic valve disease	424	43 (19)
Other forms of Heart disease (e.g. dysrythmias, heart failure, cardiomyopathy)	425, 427, 428	81 (79)
Total		515 (238)

Please note that in case of multiple valid endpoints in the same patient, cause of death prevailed over hospital admissions or else the first hospital discharge diagnosis was used.