CKB and Hypertension: A previous analyses of 0.5 M adults in the overall CKB study population demonstrated one-third had hypertension at baseline, with much lower levels of diagnosis, treatment, and control than in Western populations.35 About two-thirds of men in the present resurvey population were both regular smokers and regular drinkers, and about one-sixth of resurvey participants with prior CVD or a CHA2DS2-VASc score of ≥2 had self-reported diabetes or a raised random plasma glucose.