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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 13.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Cardiol. 2009 Spring;12(2):95–101. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-7141.2008.00019.x

Table IV.

Adjusted Odds Ratios (and 95% Confidence Intervals) for Receipt of Appropriate Treatment Among All Screened Patients

Characteristic Screened population
(N=1711)
Odds ratio
(95% Confidence
Interval)		 P Value
Age (per 5 y) 0.91 (0.85–0.98) .01
Sex (female vs male) 1.22 (0.76–1.97) .41
Ethnicity (African
 American vs white)		 1.76 (0.72–4.31) .21
Pretreatment LDL-C, mg/dL
 ≤130 18.8 (6.87–51.3) <.001
 131–159 1.24 (0.58–2.69)
 160–189 1.00 (0.34–2.95)
 ≥190 Reference
ATP risk category
 Low vs high 27.45 (9.71–77.62) <.001
 Intermediate vs high 2.98 (1.61–5.51)

Abbreviations: ATP, Report of the Adult Treatment Panel National Cholesterol Education Program; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.