Table V.

Adjusted Odds Ratios (and 95% Confidence Intervals) for Receipt of Appropriate Treatment Among the Subset (N=375) of Patients Screened Who Qualified for Lipid-Lowering Drug Treatment

Characteristic	Odds ratio (95% CI)	P Value
Age (per 5 y)	0.98 (0.85–1.13)	.81
Sex (female vs male)	0.69 (0.31–1.51)	.35
Ethnicity (African  American vs white)	2.19 (1.03–4.64)	.04
Pretreatment LDL-C, mg/dL
≤130	NA in this subset	<.001
131–159	0.15 (0.07–0.31)
160–189	0.37 (0.13–1.06)
≥190	Reference
ATP risk category
Low vs high	1.32 (0.27–6.41)	.22
Intermediate vs high	0.58 (0.28–1.22)

Abbreviations: ATP, Report of the Adult Treatment Panel National Cholesterol Education Program; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; NA, not available.