Table 3.

Events and events rates for forest plot (Fig. 3)

	Unchanged HDL-C No of patients	Decreased HDL-C No of patients	Unchanged HDL-C No of events	Decreased HDL-C No of events	Unchanged HDL-C Events/1000 patient-years	Decreased HDL-C Events/1000 patient-years
Total	8919	3068	236	93	11.3	12.8
Female	4840	1872	98	43	8.5	9.7
Male	4079	1196	138	50	14.6	17.5
Primary prevention	5063	1838	62	34	5.3	8.1
Secondary prevention	3856	1230	174	59	18.8	19.0
Diabetes	2433	691	93	36	16.3	20.4
No diabetes	6486	2377	143	57	9.4	10.3
Age over 75 years	959	303	72	32	31.8	48.7
Age below 75 years	7960	2765	164	61	8.8	9.2