Table 3:
Estimations of the proportion of people with systolic blood pressure >140 mm Hg before and after a reduction in alcohol intake by sex and age in the UK, 2014
| Men | Women | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | Before | After | Proportional difference | Population | Before | After | Proportional difference | |
| Age 15–34 years | 8 206 000 | 14.6% | 13.8% (1 132 428) | −5.5% | 7 899 000 | 6.0% | 5.9% (466 041) | −1.7% |
| Age 35–64 years | 12 210 000 | 27.9% | 26.4% (3 223 440) | −5.4% | 12 560 000 | 17.1% | 16.7% (2 097 520) | −2.3% |
| Age >65 years | 4 529 000 | 40.2% | 39.1% (1 770 839) | −2.7% | 5 767 000 | 41.1% | 40.9% (2 358 703) | −0.5% |
| All | 24 945 000 | 25.7% | 24.6% (6 126 707) | −4.4% | 26 226 000 | 19.0% | 18.8% (4 922 264) | −1.2% |
The joint distributions of alcohol consumption and systolic blood pressure were taken from the Health Survey of England 2014.20 The effect size of the intervention was taken from the results of this meta-analysis. Details of the modelling strategy have been described elsewhere21 and are summarised in the appendix pp 2–3.