Table 3.

Estimation of percentage of population requiring drug treatment based on total risk approach in comparison to single risk factor approaches (n=5977)

	Cardiovascular (CV) risk ≥20%		Single risk factor approach
	CV risk ≥20% alone, %	CV risk ≥20% + BP ≥160/100	BP ≥140/90 (SBP ≥140 + isolated raised DBP), %
Men	1.0	2.1	22.1
Women	0.1	1.6	26.7
Total	0.5	1.8	24.6

BP, blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; SBP, systolic blood pressure.