18

Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, [45]

Year: 2007

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific Region

Number: 333,533

1) Total Cholesterol

2) Diabetes

19

Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, [46]

Year: 2003

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific Region

Number: 352,033

Female: 42%

Age: 47 years

1) Cholesterol level

20

McDonald-Sundborn et al., [47]

Year: 2002-2003

Type: Cross-Sectional study

Country: New Zealand

Number: 1011 (Samoans: 484, Tongans: 252, Niuean: 109, Cook Islands: 116)

Male: 464

Female: 500

Age: 35 - 75 years

1) Ethnicity

2) Cigarette Smoking

3) Physical Inactivity

4) BMI

5) Blood Pressure

6) Cholesterol

7) Diabetes

21

Tsukinoki et al., [48]

Year: 2012

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific

Number: 419,488

Age: more than 30 years old

1) Age

2) Elevated Blood Pressure

3) Excess Body Mass Index

4) Smoking

22

Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, [49]

Year: 2005

Type: Cohort study

Country: Asia Pacific Region

Number: 1989

Male: 1063

Female: 926

Age: 20 years and above

1) Age

2) Sex

3) Blood Pressure

4) Total Cholesterol

5) BMI

6) Cigarette Smoking

7) Diabetes

23

Arima et al., [50]

Year: 2012

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific Region

Number: 346,570

Male: 204,476.3 (59%)

Female: 142,093.7 (41%)

Age: mean 48 years

1) Smoking

2) Total Cholesterol

24

Arima et al., [50]

Year: 2008

Type: Cohort Study

Country: Asia Pacific

Number: 380,483 (Adults)

Age: 15 and above

1) Total Cholesterol

25

Dobson et al., [51]

Year: 2011

Type: Case Control Study

Country: Fiji

Number: 160

Male: 80

Female: 80

Age: between 5 & 15 years

1) Genetic Factors that are influence by environmental factors (crowding and poverty)

26

Gu et al., [52]

Year: 2013

Type: Cohort Study

Country: New Zealand

Number: 10,863

Age: 35 years (Men), 45 years (Women)

1) Gender