Table 3.

Population Attributable Fractions of Cardiovascular Diseases due to Non-optimal Systolic Blood Pressure and Hypertension, overall and by gender

	Non-optimal SBP		Hypertension
	PAF	95% UI*	PAF	95% UI*
Overall
IHD mortality	0.27	0.18–0.36	0.30	0.25–0.35
CVA mortality	0.43	0.31–0.53	0.48	0.43–0.54
CVD mortality	0.32	0.25–0.38	0.35	0.32–0.39
Women
IHD mortality	0.21	0.07–0.35	0.38	0.29–0.45
CVA mortality	0.44	0.25–0.57	0.44	0.33–0.53
CVD mortality	0.28	0.16–0.38	0.39	0.32–0.45
Men
IHD mortality	0.30	0.18–0.41	0.24	0.17–0.30
CVA mortality	0.42	0.25–0.55	0.51	0.44–0.57
CVD mortality	0.33	0.24–0.41	0.32	0.27–0.37

^*95% uncertainty interval