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Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, [15]

Year: 2004

Type: Asia Pacific

Country: Cohort Study

Number: 96,224

Age: 48.4 years

1) Serum triglycerides

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Feigin et al., [57]

Year: 2005

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific Region

Number: 306,620

Age: Mean 48

1) Cigarette Smoking

2) Elevated Blood Pressure

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Kengne et al., [58]

Year: 2009

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific Region

Number: 205,389

Male: 205,389

Age: Men (With diabetes: 5211 years) (without diabetes: 4811 years)

1) Cigarette Smoking

2) Diabetes

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Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, [59]

Year: 2005

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific

Number: 463,674 Asian (33% female) and 96,664 Australasians (45% female)

Male: 63% Asians and 55% Australasians

Female: 33% Asians Female and 45% Australasians female

Age: Australasians (mean age: 53.2 years) and Asians (mean age: 46.5 years)

1) Cigarette Smoking

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Hosey et al., [60]

Year: 2014

Type: Cross-Sectional Study

Country: Federated State of Micronesia

Number: 1639

Male: 642

Female: 996

Age: 25 - 64 years

1) Age

2) Sex

3) Socioeconomic position

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Woodward et al., [16]

Year: 2014

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific

Number: 303,036 (71% Asians)

Male: 32%

Female: 68%

Age: mean: 47 years

1) Socioeconomic Status

41

Woodward et al.

Number: 368,307

1) Systolic Blood Pressure

2) Diabetes

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Cho et al., [61]

Year: 2002

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific

Number: 161,214 (58% Asians with diabetes)

Male: 50%

Female: 50%

Age: 20 - 107 years

1) Age

2) Ethnicity

3) Diabetes