Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of modeled population by cholesterol level

	Mild-cholesterol population (N = 1598)		High-cholesterol population (N = 640)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age	59.40	10.42	60.46	9.91
Proportion of male	0.41	0.49	0.35	0.48
BMI	27.61	4.95	28.04	4.90
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	129.73	17.41	132.10	17.41
Total cholesterol (mmol/l)/HDL ratio (mmol/l)	3.98	1.38	4.51	1.53
10-year CVD risk	12.27	11.87	12.85	10.78