Table 1

Correlation coefficients and linear regression slopes based on the original GCP data and a corrected dataset (see text)

Independent variables (mean values)	Dependent variables (% prevalence of deviance)			Original GCP data			Corrected GCP dataset		Correlation coefficients according to Rose et al³
Independent variables (mean values)	Dependent variables (% prevalence of deviance)			Pearson correlation coefficients	Slopes (linear regression)		95% Confidence intervals	Pearson correlation coefficients	Correlation coefficients according to Rose et al³	Slopes (linear regression)	95% Confidence intervals
Systolic blood pressure	Systolic hypertension (⩾140 mm Hg)	all	0.97	1.71	1.51 / 1.91	0.86	2.90	2.07 / 3.73	0.76
		male	0.95	1.93	1.61 / 2.24	0.78	3.00	1.85 / 4.16
		female	0.98	1.48	1.33 / 1.64	0.90	2.65	2.03 / 3.26
	Systolic hypertension (⩾160 mm Hg)	all	0.91	0.67	0.53 / 0.82	0.81	0.80	0.52 / 1.07	—
		male	0.94	0.63	0.52 / 0.75	0.89	0.78	0.59 / 0.97
		female	0.90	0.77	0.59 / 0.96	0.72	0.87	0.46 / 1.27
Diastolic blood pressure	Diastolic hypertension (⩾90 mm Hg)	all	0.97	2.35	2.06 / 2.63	0.88	3.40	2.54 / 4.27	—
		male	0.96	2.61	2.25 / 2.96	0.84	3.55	2.46 / 4.64
		female	0.96	2.12	1.83 / 2.42	0.87	2.91	2.10 / 3.72
	Diastolic hypertension (⩾95 mm Hg)	all	0.96	1.38	1.20 / 1.56	0.91	1.76	1.39 / 2.13	—
		male	0.93	1.56	1.27 / 1.85	0.85	1.88	1.32 / 2.44
		female	0.95	1.20	1.01 / 1.39	0.88	1.44	1.06 / 1.81
Cholesterol	Hypercholesterolaemia (⩾250 mg/dl)	all	0.95	0.89	0.75 / 1.03	0.28	0.49	−0.32 / 1.31	—
		male	0.94	0.84	0.69 / 0.99	0.40	0.62	−0.08 / 1.36
		female	0.95	0.89	0.74 / 1.04	0.15	0.27	−0.59 / 1.14
	Hypercholesterolaemia (⩾300 mg/dl)	all	0.83	0.38	0.26 / 0.50	0.52	0.32	0.07 / 0.58	—
		male	0.68	0.28	0.13 / 0.42	0.36	0.16	−0.07 / 0.40
		female	0.84	0.42	0.29 / 0.55	0.46	0.33	0.27 / 0.64
Body mass index	Overweight (⩾30 kg/m²)	all	0.97	5.97	5.21 / 6.74	0.86	9.03	6.44 / 11.62	0.78
		male	0.93	5.71	4.61 / 6.82	0.78	7.29	4.50 / 10.08
		female	0.95	5.88	4.96 / 6.80	0.75	8.94	5.18 / 12.71
Alcohol intake	Heavy drinking (⩾300 g/week)	all	0.95	0.18	0.15 / 0.21	0.55	0.24	0.07 / 0.42	0.64
		male	0.98	0.19	0.17 / 0.21	0.83	0.37	0.25 / 0.49
		female	0.83	0.14	0.10 / 0.19	0.22	0.06	−0.07 / 0.20
		all^1-150	0.77	13.44	8.02 / 18.88	0.32	7.17	−2.90 / 17.24
		male^1-150	0.91	19.39	15.24 / 23.53	0.73	20.70	11.41 / 29.99
		femal^1-150	0.56	5.39	1.54 / 9.24	0.24	2.53	−2.43 / 7.48

↵1-150 Log(1+units).