Table 3: Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in different populations (figures in %)
| Risk factor | Framingham cohort7 | Chinese Multi-provincial Cohort Study7 | Prevalence of risk factors in Hong Kong Chinese 1996 study14 | ||||||
| Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | ||||
| BP >140/90 | 36 | 29 | 29 | 22 | 18 | 17 | |||
TC  6.2 |
17 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||
| HDL <0.9 | 19 | 4 | 6 | 4 | ? | ? | |||
| Smoking | 40 | 38 | 59 | 4 | 36 | 4 | |||
| DM | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 (combined) | ||||
| BP | = | Blood pressure |
| TC | = | Total cholesterol (mmol/l) |
| HDL | = | High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (mmol/l) |
| DM | = | Diabetes mellitus |