Table 3.

Coverage and detection of high cardiovascular risk populations for various screening strategies

	Targeted screening				Universal
	≥ age 50	≥ age 45	≥ age 40	≥ age 35	screening
Overall
Coverage of population	46.72	58.06	70.13	84.47	100.00
Coverage of high risk population	94.39	98.71	99.82	100.00	100.00
% of high risk individuals - among those screened	53.97	45.42	38.02	31.62	26.71
NNS to detect 1 high risk individual (no.)	1.85	2.20	2.63	3.16	3.74
Males
Coverage of population	44.36	56.32	68.82	83.95	100.00
Coverage of high risk population	92.60	98.22	99.75	100.00	100.00
% of high risk individuals - among those screened	72.41	60.50	50.28	41.32	34.69
NNS to detect 1 high risk individual (no.)	1.38	1.65	1.99	2.42	2.88
Females
Coverage of population	49.03	59.76	71.41	84.98	100.00
Coverage of high risk population	97.61	99.58	99.99	100.00	100.00
% of high risk individuals - among those screened	37.59	31.47	26.43	22.22	18.88
NNS to detect 1 high risk individual (no.)	2.66	3.18	3.78	4.50	5.30

All data are in percentage (%) unless otherwise stated.

NNS numbers needed to screen.