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Figure 1 Percent of Participants With Above Optimal Levels of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors According to Clinical Guidelines and Who Smoked Cigarettes at Years 0 and 15 in the CARDIA Study, 1985 to 1986

Above optimal defined as: low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol ≥130 mg/dl; high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol ≤40 mg/dl; systolic/diastolic blood pressure ≥120/80 mm Hg; glucose ≥110 mg/dl; body mass index ≥25 kg/m2.