TABLE 1.

Characteristics of Hypercholesterolemia Patients at the Time of Stroke Death or the End of Follow-Up

	Noncases n = 57,734	Fatal n = 532
Age, yrs	64.3 (11.2)	72.8 (9.7)
Male	26,674 (46)	242 (45)
Education
Upper tertiary	3,272 (6)	10 (2)
Lower tertiary	9,764 (17)	43 (8)
Secondary	17,828 (31)	85 (16)
Basic	26,770 (47)	394 (74)
Diabetes	1,117 (2)	34 (6)
History of cancer	950 (2)	19 (4)
Follow-up, yrs	5.5 (3.4)	4.7 (3.0)
Medication*
Thrombus	6,379 (11)	173 (33)
Diabetes mellitus	10,843 (19)	147 (28)
Hypertension	39,403 (68)	453 (85)

Values are mean (SD) or n (%). Comparisons between noncases and cases were done with 2-sample t tests or chi-square tests, as appropriate. All p values are 0.001 or <0.001, except p = 0.743 in comparison of sex between noncases and stroke deaths.

^*Use of drugs against selected diseases during the follow-up.