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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Heart Fail. 2013 Oct 15;6(6):1132–1138. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.113.000163

Table 2.

Patient characteristics associated with prescription rates

ACEI/ARB Beta-Blockers Composite of
ACEI/ARB and BB
Rate Ratio (95%
CI)
Rate Ratio (95%
CI)
Rate Ratio (95%
CI)
Age: 65 –< 75 0.98 (0.96,1.00) 0.98 (0.97, 0.99) 0.96 (0.95,0.98)
Age: >= 75 0.93 (0.90,0.95) 0.97 (0.95,0.99) 0.91 (0.88,0.94)
Female 0.97 (0.95–1.00) 1.01 (0.99–1.02) 0.99 (0.96–1.01)
Insurance: Private 0.97 (0.93–1.02) 0.97(0.94–1.01) 0.97 (0.92–1.03)
Insurance: Public 0.97 (0.93–1.02) 0.99 (0.95–1.03) 0.97 (0.92–1.03)
A-fib 0.99 (0.97–1.02) 1.00 (0.98–1.03) 1.00 (0.97–1.03)
Dyslipidemia 1.03 (1.01–1.06)* 1.02 (0.99–1.05) 1.04 (1.00–1.08)
Hypertension 1.01 (0.98–1.03) 1.01 (1.00–1.02) 1.01 (0.98–1.04)
PAD 1.00 (0.97–1.04) 0.99 (0.97–1.02) 1.00 (0.97–1.04)
Prior stroke 1.01 (0.98–1.04) 0.98 (0.94–1.03) 0.99 (0.95–1.04)
Angina 0.99 (0.96–1.03) 0.99 (0.97–1.02) 0.98 (0.95–1.02)
MI History 1.01 (0.98–1.04) 1.03 (1.01–1.04)* 1.03 (0.99–1.06)
Current Smoker 0.99 (0.97–1.01) 0.99 (0.97–1.01) 0.98 (0.95–1.01)
CABG w/in 12 months 0.96 (0.87–1.06) 1.01 (0.98–1.05) 0.95 (0.84–1.06)
PCI w/in 12 months 1.06 (1.03–1.09)* 1.04 (1.01–1.06)* 1.08 (1.04–1.13)*
Diabetes 1.00 (0.97–1.03) 1.02 (1.00–1.03) 1.02 (0.98–1.05)
Practice Median Rate Ratio 1.11 (1.08–1.18) 1.08 (1.05–1.15) 1.17 (1.13–1.26)