Table 2.

Independent correlates of communicable heart disease, relative to non-communicable heart disease.

	Communicable disease
	OR	95% CI
Women	0.91	0.72 to 1.15
Age	0.98	0.97 to 0.99**
Obesity	0.50	0.37 to 0.68***
<6 years formal education	1.11	0.88 to 1.42
Soweto origin	0.98	0.77 to 1.24
Body mass index adjusted analysis
High TC	0.52	0.37 to 0.71***
High LDLC	0.56	0.41 to 0.76***
Low HDLC	1.91	1.42 to 2.57***
High TG	0.65	0.51 to 0.84*

Obesity BMI >30 kg/m²; High total cholesterol (TC) >4.5 mmol/L; High low-density lipoprotein (LDLC) >2.5 mmol/L; Low high-density lipoprotein (HDLC) (<1.0 mmol/L in men, <1.2 mmol/L in women). Age and sex-adjusted analysis: *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001.