Table 2. Age- and gender-adjusted prevalence ratios for major cardiovascular risk comparing each country against all the countries from Latin American and the Caribbean included in this study.

Country	Hypertension	Diabetes	High total cholesterol	Smoking
Argentina	0.61 *	1.12	0.84	0.41
Chile	1.48 *	1.10	1.02	1.82 *
Colombia	0.70	0.90	1.67 *	0.65 *
Costa Rica	1.15	1.40	1.86 *	0.76 *
Dominican Republic	1.31	1.25	0.83	0.74
Peru	0.65 *	0.41 *	0.75	0.68
Puerto Rico	1.19	2.89 *	1.10	0.99
Venezuela	1.49	0.98	0.78	0.87

^*95% confidence interval does not include 1.00.