Card 6 / 17: The following questions are based on what you have learned about cardiovascular disease in Med Foundations I and the assigned article entitled, “A Randomized Trial of Low-Dose Aspirin in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women” New England Journal of Medicine 2005; 352: 1293-1304Table 1 indicates that the prevalence of hypertension in the low?-dose aspirin group was 26% at the first study visit. How many women in the low?-dose aspirin group had hypertension at the first study visit?
A) 5183
B) 5185
C) 10,368
D) Cannot be calculated without knowing the number of new cases of hypertension over the ten years of follow?-up.
E) Cannot be calculated without knowing the number of women who had hypertension before the first study visit.

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