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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2010 Dec 21;215(1):223–228. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.12.012

Table 1.

Sample characteristics by 10-year CHD risk category prior to deregulation of simvastatin (baseline). Figures are numbers (%) unless otherwise stated

Moderate risk group (N = 1,180) High risk group (N = 2,451)
Mean age, years 61.3 63.4
Sex
 Male 1,070 (90.7) 1,931 (78.8)
 Female 110 (9.3) 520 (21.2)
Ethnicity
 White 1,127 (95.8) 2,171 (88.7)
 South Asian 34 (2.9) 186 (7.6)
 Afro-Caribbean 12 (1.0) 70 (2.9)
 Other 4 (0.3) 21 (0.9)
Employment grade
 High 625 (53.2) 1,045 (44.5)
 Intermediate 481 (40.9) 1,040 (44.3)
 Low 70 (6.0) 265 (11.3)