Table 2 Overall and gender-specific prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors

Biological

 Hypercholesterolemia

53.5 (47.3, 59.7)

53.2 (44.7, 61.5)

53.9 (49.2, 58.5)

 General and/or abdominal obesity

48.8 (45.4, 52.2)

40.9 (36.3, 45.8)

57.2 (53.4, 60.9)

 Hypertriglyceridemia

27.8 (20.8, 36.0)

31.9 (26.4, 38.1)

23.3 (14.7, 34.8)

 Hypertension

25.8 (23.2, 28.6)

26.2 (22.5, 30.2)

25.4 (22.5, 28.5)

 Diabetes mellitus

11.0 (9.2, 13.2)

9.8 (7.3, 12.9)

12.4 (10.6, 14.4)

 Lifestyle

 Inadequate vegetable and fruit intake

72.8 (69.5, 75.9)

70.3 (65.6, 74.5)

75.5 (72.4, 78.4)

 Inadequate physical activity

41.3 (37.4, 45.3)

36.8 (32.9, 40.8)

46.2 (41.0, 51.4)

 Smoking

25.5 (23.0, 28.2)

46.5 (42.3, 50.8)

3.0 (2.1, 4.3)

 Risky drinking

0.7 (0.3, 1.6)

1.2 (0.5, 3.1)

0.1 (0.02, 0.5)

Total number of biological and/or lifestyle risk factors

 0

1.5 (0.8, 2.7)

1.3 (0.5, 3.3)

1.8 (1.1, 2.9)

 1

10.5 (8.6, 12.7)

9.9 (7.4, 13.3)

11.1 (8.4, 14.3)

 2

25.5 (22.3, 29.0)

24.5 (19.8, 30.0)

26.6 (24.0, 29.3)

 3

26.2 (23.4, 29.2)

24.7 (20.8, 29.1)

27.8 (24.7, 31.2)

 4

20.9 (19.0, 23.0)

22.5 (19.0, 26.4)

19.2 (16.8, 22.0)

 5

10.2 (8.8, 11.7)

10.8 (8.8, 13.2)

9.5 (7.7, 11.5)

 6

3.8 (3.1, 4.6)

4.1 (3.0, 5.6)

3.4 (2.6, 4.5)

 7

1.4 (0.9, 2.0)

2.0 (1.3, 3.2)

0.6 (0.4, 1.1)

≥3 biological/lifestyle risk factors

62.5 (58.5, 66.3)

64.3 (57.7, 70.4)

60.6 (56.9, 64.2)