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Published in final edited form as: Glob Heart. 2015 Sep 26;10(4):273–280. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2015.06.002

TABLE 3.

Discharge medical therapy prescriptions, by sex

	n	Total (N = 25,748)	Men (n = 19,923)	Women (n = 5,825)	p Value
Aspirin	25,748	19,669 (76.4)	15,150 (76.0)	4,519 (77.6)	0.015
Clopidogrel	25,748	20,443 (79.4)	15,739 (79.0)	4,694 (80.6)	0.009
Beta-blockers	25,748	16,133 (62.7)	12,646 (63.5)	3,487 (59.9)	<0.001
Statins	25,748	18,057 (70.1)	13,879 (69.7)	4,178 (71.7)	0.002
ACE-I/ARB	25,748	6,553 (25.5)	4,872 (24.5)	1,681 (28.9)	<0.001
Nitrates	25,748	19,323 (75.1)	15,104 (75.8)	4,219 (72.4)	<0.001
Calcium channel blockers	25,748	2,969 (11.5)	2,278 (11.4)	691 (11.9)	0.368
Optimal discharge care	24,750	11,397 (46.1)	8,790 (45.9)	2,607 (46.7)	0.289

Values are n (%) unless otherwise indicated.

Abbreviations as in Table 1.