Table 2
Prevalence of statin treatment, recommended statin treatment, risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, number needed to treat (NNT) and CVD events avoided, by CVD risk category, household population aged 20 to 79, Canada excluding territories, 2007 to 2011

Table 2
Prevalence of statin treatment, recommended statin treatment, risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, number needed to treat (NNT) and CVD events avoided, by CVD risk category, household population aged 20 to 79, Canada excluding territories, 2007 to 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Prevalence of statin treatment CVD risk category, Total, High, Intermediate, Low, Number (’000), % or number and 95% confidence interval (appearing as column headers).
  CVD risk category
Total High Intermediate Low
Number (’000) % or number 95% confidence interval Number (’000) % or number 95% confidence interval Number (’000) % or number 95% confidence interval Number (’000) % or number 95% confidence interval
from to from to from to from to
Total population 24,033.9 100.0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 4,729.6 19.7 17.9 21.6 2,167.6 9.0 7.6 10.7 17,136.0 71.3 69.5 73.1
Currently treated 2,785.5 11.6 9.9 13.5 2,101.9 44.4 38.8 50.3 323.6Note E: Use with caution 14.9Note E: Use with caution 9.7 22.3 360.0 2.1Note E: Use with caution 1.5 2.9
RecommendedNote † for treatment 6,518.2 27.1 25.3 29.1 4,729.6 100.0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 1,467.2 67.7 60.8 73.9 321.4Note E: Use with caution 1.9Note E: Use with caution 1.2 2.9
Mean 10-year risk (%) for total CVD events  
Currently treated Note ...: not applicable 27.1 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 32.4 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 14.7 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 6.9 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
RecommendedNote † for treatment Note ...: not applicable 23.7 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 27.9 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 13.9 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 5.6 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Number needed to treat to prevent one CVD cardiovascular disease event over 10 years  
Currently treated Note ...: not applicable 15 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 12 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 27 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 58 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
RecommendedNote † for treatment Note ...: not applicable 17 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 14 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 31 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 71 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Total cardiovascular disease events avoided over 10 years (’000)  
Currently treated Note ...: not applicable 188.7 159.5 217.9 Note ...: not applicable 170.3 139.6 200.9 Note ...: not applicable 11.9 6.5 17.2 Note ...: not applicable 6.2 4.1 8.3
RecommendedNote † for treatment Note ...: not applicable 386.2 357.7 414.7 Note ...: not applicable 329.9 298.7 361.1 Note ...: not applicable 50.9 40.5 61.4 Note ...: not applicable 4.5 2.6 6.4
... not applicable
E use with caution
Note †

according to 2012 Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines

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Source: 2007 to 2009 and 2009 to 2011 Canadian Health Measures Survey, combined.

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