Table 1.
        Sample description: 430 CVD-free participants drawn from the Whitehall II epidemiological cohort between 2006 and 2008 in United Kingdom.
Variable,Mean or %,SD
Age (years),62.8,5.7
Male (%),55.6,
White ethnicity (%),100.0,
Smoker (%),4.4,
No. of cigarettes per day if smoker,15.0,8.7
Body mass index (Kg/m2),25.7,3.8
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg),128.5,15.3
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg),69.6,8.4
HDL (mmol/L),1.7,0.5
LDL (mmol/L),3.1,0.8
Total cholesterol (mmol/L),5.4,0.9
Total cholesterol /HDL ratio,3.4,1.0
Glycosylated haemoglobin (mean %),5.4,0.3
Diabetes (%),0.0,
Family history of CVD (%),52.7,
On treatment for hypertension (%),0.0,
On treatment with statins (%),0.0,
Rheumatoid arthritis (%),0.0,
Estimated risk of CVD events within 10 years (mean %)
Framingham,13.2,7.1
JBS/BNF,10.6,6.1
Assign,14.4,7.4
Qrisk2,11.4,5.5
Agatston coronary calcium score (%)
None,44.4,
< 100,33.7,
100–399,14.2,
400 +,7.7,
Detectable HS-CTnT (%),17.9,
HS-CTnT concentration if detectable (geom. ng/L),6.0,1.6