Figure 1
A) Survey inclusion flow chart. HPACC refers to The GHP Project on Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases Collaboration. STEPS refers to STEPwise approach to NCD risk factor surveillance surveys. B) Use of aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease by income group, age, sex, education, and rurality. Estimates are weighted by each country’s 2019 population of individuals aged 40 to 69 years. Income group refers to World Bank per capita income categories in the year the survey was conducted. aEducation was unavailable in the survey from Tokelau. bUrban vs rural residence was unavailable in the surveys from Bermuda, Botswana, Brunei, Ecuador, Eswatini, Kiribati, Kuwait, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and the US. C) CVD risk categories of individuals using aspirin for primary prevention by income group. Estimates are weighted by each country’s 2019 population of individuals aged 40 to 69 years. Income group refers to World Bank per capita income categories in the year the survey was conducted. Categories of 10-year predicted CVD risk are calculated using the 2019 regionally calibrated WHO laboratory-based risk-prediction models.