Fig. 1

Impact of age on predicted 10-year risk of a cardiovascular event. For a woman (solid columns) with total cholesterol 213 mg/dl, HDL-C 50 mg/dl, untreated systolic BP 130 mmHg, nonsmoker, with diabetes, her estimated 10-year risk of a cardiovascular event is 3%, 7.2%, and 18.7% at ages 50, 60, and 70. For a man (open columns) with total cholesterol 213 mg/dl, HDL-C 50 mg/dl, untreated systolic BP 115 mmHg, nonsmoker, without diabetes, his estimated 10-year risk of a cardiovascular event is 3%, 7.3%, and 15.1% at ages 50, 60, and 70. Predicted 10-year risk was calculated using the pooled cohort equation [6]