Table 1. Incidence rate and incidence rate ratio with 95% confidence interval for an adverse cardiac event before age 50 among 361,353 men and women stratified to three age groups with total cholesterol ≥6.0 mmol/L, triglycerides ≥1.40 mmol/L, and glucose ≥5.6 mmol/L (Exposed) and those with lower levels (unexposed).
Exposed (n = 8,467) | Unexposed (n = 352,886) | |||||||
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Sex | Age at initial testing (years) |
Number of events | Person years | Incidence rate /10,000 years |
Number of events | Person years | Incidence rate /10,000 years |
Incidence rate ratio (95% CI) |
Male | 20–29 | 18 | 5,122 | 35 | 461 | 999,480 | 5 | 7.0 (4.4–11.2) |
Male | 30–39 | 104 | 21,996 | 47 | 986 | 921,445 | 11 | 4.3 (3.5–5.2) |
Male | 40–49 | 109 | 23,187 | 47 | 726 | 405,435 | 18 | 2.6 (2.1–3.2) |
Female | 20–29 | 1 | 1,769 | 6 | 119 | 900,186 | 1 | 6.0 (0.8–42.9) |
Female | 30–39 | 8 | 3,315 | 24 | 207 | 733,296 | 3 | 8.0 (3.9–16.2) |
Female | 40–49 | 7 | 4,624 | 15 | 163 | 353,052 | 5 | 3.0 (1.4–6.4) |