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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2012 Jun;14(3):201–210. doi: 10.1007/s11883-012-0244-1

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Effect of age on 10-year risk for coronary heart disease event. Ten-year risk as a function of age (in years) was calculated for an individual (man: blue; woman: red) who is a non-smoker, with no family history, no prior cardiac event, no diabetes mellitus, a fasting blood sugar of less than 100 mg/dL, a height of 5’ 8’’, a weight of 160 pounds, a waist circumference of less than 40 inches (man) or less than 35 inches (woman), a blood pressure of 120/70 mm Hg, and a cholesterol of 170 mg/dL (LDL 80 mg/dL, HDL 45 mg/dL, and triglycerides < 150 mg/dL). The risk increases by one to two orders of magnitude from 25 to 75 years of age in this individual with a relatively benign risk profile that was kept strictly unchanged over time. (Calculations made using the Heart Attack Risk Calculator from the American Heart Association. Available at https://www.heart.org/gglRisk/locale/en_US/index.html?gtype=health.)