Fig. 1

Changes in the participants with low, intermediate, and high risks of CVD over time. 10-low-risk, 130 participants with the lower risk of CVD events in a 10-year follow-up in which the risk score is < 10%; 10-intermediate-risk, 238 participants with the intermediate risk of CVD events in a 10-year follow-up in which the risk score is between 10% and 20%; 10-high-risk, 233 participants with the higher risk of CVD events in a 10-year follow-up in which the risk score is > 20%. The definitions of 20-low-risk, 20-intermediate-risk, 20-high-risk are similar with the 10-year with the thresholds of < 35%, 35-45%, > 45%, separately. There are 380 participants in 20-high-risk groups, 88 participants in 20-intermediate-risk group, 133 participants in 20-low-ris group. In the same way, 459 participants with the risk score > 60% were assigned to the 30-high-risk group, 64 participants with the risk score between 50% and 60% were assigned to the 30-intermediate-risk group, and 78 participants with the risk score < 50% were assigned to the 30-low-risk group