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CASE CASE CASE CASE
STUDY I STUDY II STUDY III STUDY IV
Known CV, No No No Yes—diag-
Pulmonary,
nosed
and/or Type 1
Metabolic
diabetes
Disease?
Major Signs or No No No No
Symptoms?
CVD Risk Factors:
Age? No Yes No No
Family History? No No No No
Current Cigarette Yes No No No
Smoking?
Sedentary No No No No
Lifestyle?
Obesity? No No Yes—BMI No
30 kgm 2
Hypertension? No No No No
Hyperchol- No No No No
esterolemia?
Pre-diabetes? Unknown— No Unknown— Diagnosed
count as count as Type 1
No in Yes in diabetes
absence
presence
of Age or
of Obesity
Obesity as
risk factors
Risk Stratification Low Risk— Low Risk— Moderate High Risk—
Category: no known no known Risk— diagnosed
disease, no disease, no no known metabolic
major signs major signs disease, disease
or symp- or symp- no major
toms, toms, signs or
1 CVD risk 1 CVD symptoms,
factor risk 2 CVD risk
factor factors
BMI body mass index, RHR resting heart rate, FBG fasting blood glucose, BP blood pressure, LDL-C
low density lipoprotein cholesterol, HDL-C high density lipoprotein cholesterol