Cardiovascular disease profile and risk factors of the complete adult population and by ethnicity
| Conditions | All adults, n (%) (n=1 275 174) | Ethnicity, n (%) | |||||
| White n=8 28 900 | Asian n=78 603 | Black n=39 805 | Mixed n=14 955 | Other n=13 661 | Not known (n=299 250) | ||
| Cardiovascular risk factors | |||||||
| Uncontrolled (SBP >140 mm Hg)* | 217 978 (17.1) | 150 779 (18.2) | 5899 (7.5) | 5733 (14.4) | 1291 (8.6) | 992 (7.3) | 53 284 (17.8) |
| CKD (stages 3–5)† | 70 965 (5.6) | 53 001 (6.4) | 2000 (2.5) | 1613 (4.1) | 350 (2.3) | 212 (1.6) | 13 789 (4.6) |
| Type 1 diabetes | 5440 (0.4) | 4019 (0.5) | 198 (0.3) | 107 (0.3) | 63 (0.4) | 32 (0.2) | 1021 (0.3) |
| Type 2 diabetes | 84 320 (6.6) | 58 586 (7.1) | 7443 (9.5) | 3605 (9.1) | 698 (4.7) | 685 (5.0) | 13 303 (4.4) |
| Obesity: BMI ≥30 kg/m2 | 247 753 (19.4) | 177 255 (21.4) | 9180 (11.7) | 10 624 (26.7) | 2411 (16.1) | 2175 (15.9) | 46 108 (15.4) |
| Active smoker | 242 599 (19.0) | 164 861 (19.9) | 10 366 (13.2) | 5884 (14.8) | 3100 (20.7) | 2768 (20.3) | 55 620 (18.6) |
| Ex-smoker | 441 499 (34.6) | 326 723 (39.4) | 16 671 (21.2) | 9172 (23.0) | 3773 (25.2) | 2946 (21.6) | 82 214 (27.5) |
| Cardiovascular diseases | |||||||
| Coronary artery disease | 44 141 (3.5) | 33 814 (4.1) | 1707 (2.2) | 360 (0.9) | 155 (1.0) | 166 (1.2) | 7939 (2.7) |
| Atrial fibrillation | 34 700 (2.7) | 26 684 (3.2) | 418 (0.5) | 226 (0.6) | 82 (0.5) | 92 (0.7) | 7198 (2.4) |
| Peripheral arterial disease | 10 027 (0.8) | 7812 (0.9) | 188 (0.2) | 111 (0.3) | 24 (0.2) | 22 (0.2) | 1870 (0.6) |
| Stroke and TIA | 27 222 (2.1) | 20 323 (2.5) | 606 (0.8) | 430 (1.1) | 96 (0.6) | 66 (0.5) | 5701 (1.9) |
| Congestive cardiac failure | 13 907 (1.1) | 10 452 (1.3) | 373 (0.5) | 226 (0.6) | 55 (0.4) | 60 (0.4) | 2741 (0.9) |
| Hypertension (diagnosed) | 234 838 (18.4) | 171 825 (20.7) | 8941 (11.4) | 7902 (19.9) | 1461 (9.8) | 1117 (8.2) | 43 592 (14.6) |
*Includes people with and without a diagnosis of hypertension.
†Number of people with condition (% of total column population), for example, CKD (stages 3–5) in in 53 001 (6.4) people in the white ethnic group.
BMI, body mass index; CKD, chronic kidney disease; SBP, systolic blood pressure; TIA, transient ischaemic attack.