Table 3.

Unadjusted and Adjusted Deaths/1,000 Person-years Based on 19 Years of Follow-up in Japanese Men Aged 61 to 81 Years in Japan and Hawaii.

Adjusted risk factors	Deaths/1,000 person-years		Relative hazard‡	95% CI
	Hawaii (1,379)*	Japan (954)
No adjustment	36.2 (738)†	49.4‖ (643)	1.44	1.29, 1.60
Age	36.4	48.8‖	1.36	1.22, 1.51
Age and systolic blood pressure	37.3	47.2‖	1.28	1.15, 1.43
Age and cigarette smoking	38.4	45.3¶	1.19	1.06, 1.33
All risk factors except systolic blood pressure and cigarette smoking§	37.8	46.4‖	1.24	1.10, 1.40
Age, systolic blood pressure, and cigarette smoking	39.6	43.6	1.11	0.98, 1.25
All risk factors§	40.9	41.8	1.02	0.90, 1.16

^*Sample size.

^†Number of deaths.

^‡Japan versus Hawaii.

^§All risk factors include age, cigarette smoking, systolic blood pressure, treatment for hypertension, diabetes, total cholesterol, body mass index, alcohol drinking, and prevalent stroke and coronary heart disease.

^‖Significant excess risk of death in Japan versus Hawaii (p<0.001).

^¶Significant excess risk of death in Japan versus Hawaii (p<0.01).

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.