Table 1.

Baseline Patient Characteristics

	Total Patients (n = 3,724,991)	Patient Missing Data for ASCVD Calculation (n = 3,589,825)	Study Patients (n = 135,166)
Age (mean ± SD)	56.9 ± 19.6	56.8 ± 19.9	61.2 ± 10.2
Sex
Male	1,559,473 (42.6%)	1,499,163 (42.5%)	60,310 (44.6%)
Female	2,102,712 (57.4%)	2,027,856 (57.5%)	74,856 (55.4%)
Race
White	1,905,291 (86.8%)	1,784,246 (86.6%)	121,045 (89.6%)
Black	235,321 (10.7%)	224,280 (10.9%)	11,041 (8.2%)
Other	55,493 (2.5%)	52,413 (2.5%)	3,080 (2.3%)
Insurance
No insurance	4,370 (1.3%)	4,264 (1.4%)	106 (0.7%)
Private	243,819 (73.9%)	231,535 (73.6%)	12,284 (78.5%)
Medicare	64,947 (19.7%)	62,238 (19.8%)	2,709 (17.3%)
Medicaid	9,035 (2.7%)	8,865 (2.8%)	170 (1.1%)
Other	7,965 (2.4%)	7,576 (2.4%)	389 (2.5%)
Missing	1,006,336		41,490
Total cholesterol mg/dl (mean± SD)	180.9 ± 42.2	179.8 ± 42.2	185.6 ± 41.9
Tobacco use
Never	977,914 (60.7%)	904,373 (61.1%)	73,541 (56.1%)
Current	247,370 (15.3%)	228,107 (15.4%)	19,263 (14.7%)
Quit within past 12 months	4,159 (0.3%)	3,632 (0.2%)	527 (0.4%)
Quit more than 12 months	382,084 (23.7%)	344,309 (23.3%)	37,775 (28.8%)
Tobacco screening not performed	6 (0.0%)	5 (0.0%)	1 (0.0%)
Hypertension	1,338,502 (48.4%)	1,256,972 (47.6%)	81,530 (65.6%)
Systolic Blood Pressure, mm Hg mean ±SD	127.1 ± 17.8	127.0 ± 17.8	129.1 ± 16.8
Diastolic Blood Pressure, mm Hg, mean ± SD	76.0 ± 11.2	75.9 ± 11.2	76.8 ± 10.7
Diabetes Mellitus (any)	396,489 (12.9%)	367,518 (12.5%)	28,971 (21.4%)
High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, mg/dl, mean ± SD	51.8 ± 19.1	51.7 ± 19.1	52.4 ± 18.9
Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, mg/dl, mean ± SD	102.3 ± 37.2	101.4 ± 37.1	105.9 ± 37.2
Chronic Liver Disease	24,473 (0.9%)	23,107 (0.9%)	1,366 (1.2%)
Intracranial Hemorrhage	19,282 (0.5%)	18,872 (0.5%)	410 (0.3%)
Dyslipidemia	1,078,619 (37.9%)	993,317 (36.4%)	85,302 (71.6%)
Heart Failure	263,417 (9.0%)	251,387 (8.9%)	12,030 (9.3%)