Table 7-5. – Healthcare indicators of adults with arterial hypertension according to ethnicity. National Health Survey, Brazil, 2019.

Indicator	Ethnicity
	White (A)		Black (B)		Mixed-race (C)		Adjusted PR (B/A)	95%CI	Adjusted PR (C/A)	95%CI
	%	95%CI	%	95%CI	%	95%CI
Prescribed medication	96.2	95.5; 96.8	95.0	93.5; 96.2	94.5	93.7; 95.2	1.00	0.98; 1.01	1.00	0.98; 1.01
Use of medication in the previous two weeks	88.5	87.2; 89.6	86.7	84.6; 88.6	85.3	84.1; 86.5	0.99	0.97; 1.01	1.00	0.98; 1.03
At least one medication from the “Popular Pharmacy Program”	44.8	42.9; 46.8	46.3	43.0; 49.7	44.8	42.8; 46.9	0.94	0.89; 1.00	0.97	0.89; 1.06
Received medical care for hypertension within the last year	71.5	69.9; 73.1	74.7	71.9; 77.3	72.1	70.5; 73.7	1.01	0.98; 1.04	1.05	1.01; 1.09
Had the last physician appointment at UBS	39.4	37.3; 41.6	51.9	48.6; 55.2	50.7	48.9; 52.5	1.01	0.96; 1.07	1.06	0.98; 1.14
Had an appointment with the same physician as in the previous appointments	56.7	54.6; 58.7	48.8	45.4; 52.2	48.2	46.3; 50.2	0.92	0.87; 0.97	0.93	0.85; 1.00
Appointments with a specialist	54.6	52.5; 56.6	47.9	44.6; 51.3	43.4	41.5; 45.3	0.96	0.91; 1.01	0.94	0.87; 1.02
Referral for a specialist	82.9	79.7; 85.7	75.4	68.9; 80.9	76.7	73.3; 79.7	0.92	0.88; 0.97	1.02	0.94; 1.09
Hospitalization for hypertension or a complication	13.2	11.9; 14.6	15.7	13.5; 18.2	16.8	15.4; 18.3	1.20	1.05; 1.38	1.14	0.95; 1.36
Intense or very intense degree of limitation of daily living activities	2.2	1.8; 2.7	3.5	2.7; 4.6	3.6	3.1; 4.3	1.37	1.06; 1.76	1.38	0.99; 1.94

CI: Confidence Interval; PR: Prevalence Ratio; UBS: Basic Healthcare Unit. The reference category used was ‘white’. Source: Malta et al. ²⁶¹