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. 2014 Nov 17;349:g5992. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g5992

Table 2.

 First incident cardiovascular events during follow-up in study to determine lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease and its first manifestation. Values are numbers of participants (percentage) unless stated otherwise

Total (n=8419) Rotterdam Study I (n=6045) Rotterdam Study II (n=2374)
Men (n=2287) Women (n=3758) Men (n=1006) Women (n=1368)
First incident event
Cardiovascular disease event 2888 (34.3) 1053 (46.0) 1491 (39.7) 164 (16.3) 180 (13.2)
 Coronary heart disease 826 (9.8) 361 (15.8) 338 (9.0) 81 (8.1) 46 (3.4)
  Myocardial infarction 417 (5.0) 188 (8.2) 157 (4.2) 44 (4.4) 28 (2.0)
  Coronary revascularisation 164 (1.9) 81 (3.5) 46 (1.2) 25 (2.5) 12 (0.9)
   Coronary artery bypass grafting 80 (1.0) 44 (1.9) 17 (0.5) 13 (1.3) 6 (0.4)
   Percutaneous coronary intervention 84 (1.0) 37 (1.6) 29 (0.8) 12 (1.2) 6 (0.4)
  Other fatal coronary heart disease 245 (2.9) 92 (4.0) 135 (3.6) 12 (1.2) 6 (0.4)
 Cerebrovascular disease 1198 (14.2) 382 (16.7) 674 (17.9) 44 (4.4) 98 (7.2)
  Stroke 725 (8.6) 231 (10.1) 416 (11.1) 23 (2.3) 55 (4.0)
  Ischaemic stroke 396 (4.7) 133 (5.8) 213 (5.7) 17 (1.7) 33 (2.4)
  Haemorrhagic stroke 72 (0.9) 25 (1.1) 35 (0.9) 2 (0.2) 10 (0.7)
  Unspecified stroke 257 (3.1) 73 (3.2) 168 (4.5) 4 (0.4) 12 (0.9)
  Transient ischaemic attack 470 (5.6) 151 (6.6) 256 (6.8) 20 (2.0) 43 (3.1)
  Carotid revascularisation 3 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 2 (0.1) 1 (0.1) 0 (0.0)
 Heart failure 762 (9.1) 267 (11.7) 430 (11.4) 37 (3.7) 28 (2.0)
 Other cardiovascular death 102 (1.2) 43 (1.9) 49 (1.3) 2 (0.2) 8 (0.6)
Non-cardiovascular death 1532 (18.2) 573 (25.1) 791 (21.0) 93 (9.2) 75 (5.5)
No event (censored alive) 3999 (47.5) 661 (28.9) 1476 (39.3) 749 (74.5) 1113 (81.4)
Follow-up time
Total person time (person years) 81 276 22 769 42 234 6709 9564
Median (IQR) (years) 8.6 (5.9 to 14.9) 10.5 (4.8 to 15.3) 13.2 (6.2 to 16.0) 7.2 (5.9 to 8.3) 7.4 (6.3 to 8.4)
Median (IQR) for participants censored alive (years) 13.5 (7.7 to 16.2) 16.0 (15.1 to 16.7) 16.2(15.2 to 17.1) 7.7 (6.8 to 8.4) 7.7 (6.7 to 8.4)

IQR=interquartile range.