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It is useful to summarise this information as the number of men with zero, one, two,
three, four and five risk factors (Figure 150). Younger men tend to have a slightly
higher percentage with more risk factors, but there is not a large difference among the
age groups with the exception of men aged 75+ years who tend to have fewer risk
factors. Overall, 1.5% of men had five of the risk factors, 13.1% had four, 30.9% had
three, 34.6% had two, 15.9% had one and 4.1% had none of the five risk factors. The
underlying data are given in the APPENDIX on page 887.
Number of risk factors out of five (%)
Figure 150: Percentage of men by number of five risk factors, Hull 2007
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90%
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18-24 25-44 45-64 65-74 75+
Age of man
Five Four Three Two One Zero
Table 161 and Figure 151 gives the equivalent information for women. Examining the
first and last rows, it can be seen that 67 (4.3%) women had none of the risk factors and
10 (0.6%) women had all five of the risk factors. Women tend to have less multiple risk
factors compared to men with a similar pattern across the age groups, i.e. similar
proportions of women with multiple risk factors across the age groups for those aged
under 75 years with women aged 75+ years having fewer multiple risk factors. It should
be noted that information is available on all five risk factors for only 75% of women
(1,573 out of the 2,092 women participating in the survey). It is not known whether this
biases the information presented or not. It is possible that women who do not have the
risk factor did not answer the question as they felt it was irrelevant to them in which case
the prevalence of multiple risk factors would be over-estimated in the information
presented below. However, it is also possible that women were more aware of these
risk factors and were more reluctant to report that they smoked, drank too much alcohol,
weighed too much, etc. If women did not answer the questions because they had these
risk factors but were reluctant to complete the information on the questionnaire, then the
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