Table 3 Cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality, the number of cases and proportion potentially preventable by increasing adherence to the Mediterranean diet: the EPIC-Norfolk studya
|  | The whole cohort (n = 23,902) | High risk population (n = 15,767)b | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Incidencec | Cases preventablec | PAF% (95Â % CI)c | Incidencec | Cases preventablec | PAF% (95Â % CI)c | |
Incident CVD events | ||||||
 All incident CVD | 248.6 | 9.7 | 3.9 (1.3–6.5) | 334.4 | 13.0 | 3.9 (1.1–6.7) |
 Incident IHD | 98.2 | 8.4 | 8.5 (1.9–15.2) | 138.3 | 10.8 | 7.8 (1.3–14.3) |
 Incident stroke | 33.8 | 3.7 | 10.8 (−1.5 to 23.1) | 48.1 | 4.9 | 10.2 (−2.1 to 22.6) |
 Incident IHD or stroke | 120.3 | 10.2 | 8.5 (3.1–13.9) | 168.9 | 13.1 | 7.7 (2.3–13.2) |
Mortality events | ||||||
 All-cause mortality | 138.4 | 7.5 | 5.4 (1.3–9.5) | 191.3 | 10.9 | 5.7 (1.6–9.8) |
 CVD mortality | 43.9 | 5.5 | 12.5 (4.5–20.6) | 65.0 | 7.4 | 11.4 (3.3–19.6) |
 IHD mortality | 21.1 | 3.5 | 16.6 (1.9–31.2) | 31.3 | 4.8 | 15.4 (0.5–30.3) |
 Stroke mortality | 13.2 | 0.7 | 5.3 (−12.0 to 22.7) | 19.6 | 0.9 | 4.6 (−13.0 to 22.2) |
 IHD or stroke mortality | 34.1 | 4.1 | 11.9 (1.75–22.0) | 50.3 | 5.4 | 10.7 (0.48–20.9) |