Table 1. Lifetime prevalence of major cardiovascular disease^*1 by federal state^*2 and sex.

	Total				Men			Women
	n	%	95% CI	Rank	%	95% CI	Rank	%	95% CI	Rank
Schleswig-Holstein	2102	12.9	[10.9; 15.1]	5	15.4	[12.4; 18.9]	2	10.5	[8.2; 13.3]	11
Hamburg	1314	10.2	[8.0; 12.7]	15	13.1	[9.6; 17.5]	11	7.4	[5.2; 10.5]	16
Lower Saxony	5806	12.9	[11.7; 14.2]	5	15.0	[13.3; 16.9]	4	10.8	[9.2; 12.7]	9
Bremen	509	11.8	[8.3; 16.6]	11	11.3	[6.6; 18.9]	14	12.3	[7.8; 19]	4
North Rhine-Westphalia	12 289	12.2	[11.4; 13.1]	9	13.4	[12.2; 14.7]	10	11.0	[9.9; 12.2]	7
Hesse	4953	12.0	[10.8; 13.3]	10	14.1	[12.3; 16.2]	7	9.9	[8.4; 11.7]	14
Rhineland-Palatinate	3122	13.7	[12.0; 15.7]	2	14.6	[12.1; 17.5]	5	12.9	[10.6; 15.6]	2
Baden-Württemberg	7803	10.0	[9.0; 10.9]	16	11.0	[9.7; 12.5]	16	8.9	[7.7; 10.3]	15
Bavaria	9463	11.0	[10.1; 11.9]	13	11.8	[10.6; 13.2]	13	10.1	[8.9; 11.5]	12
Saarland	894	10.5	[8.1; 13.6]	14	11.1	[7.4; 16.2]	15	10.0	[7.1; 14]	13
Berlin	2873	11.5	[10.0; 13.1]	12	12.4	[10.2; 15]	12	10.6	[8.8; 12.8]	10
Brandenburg	2571	13.1	[11.4; 15.0]	4	15.1	[12.5; 18.1]	3	11.2	[9.1; 13.6]	6
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania	1158	12.7	[10.5; 15.3]	8	14.5	[11.4; 18.4]	6	10.9	[8; 14.7]	8
Saxony	3636	12.8	[11.5; 14.2]	7	13.7	[11.8; 15.8]	8	11.9	[10.2; 13.9]	5
Saxony-Anhalt	1647	15.8	[13.7; 18.1]	1	16.1	[13.1; 19.7]	1	15.4	[12.7; 18.6]	1
Thuringia	2074	13.2	[11.4; 15.3]	3	13.6	[11.1; 16.7]	9	12.9	[10.3; 15.9]	2
West (states of old FRG excl. Berlin)	48 255	11.7	[11.3; 12.1]		13.1	[12.5; 13.7]		10.4	[9.8; 11.0]
East (states of old GDR incl. Berlin)	13 959	13.0	[12.3; 13.8]		14.1	[13.0; 15.2]		12.1	[11.1; 13.1]
Germany	62 214	12.0	[11.6; 12.3]		13.3	[12.7; 13.8]		10.7	[10.2; 11.2]

^*1 Myocardial infarction, other coronary heart disease, heart failure, or stroke

^*2 Arranged according to official code number for state

CI, Confidence interval; FRG, Federal Republic of Germany; GDR, German Democratic Republic