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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Social Adm Pharm. 2019 Jun 22;16(3):422–430. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2019.06.011

Table 3.

Descriptive Statistics of ACEIs/ARBs adherence (PDC) environmental characteristics at county level (n=2,981)

Variable$ Mean SD
ACEIs/ARBs adherence (PDC) 0.76 0.12
Numbers of patients per county 23.50 57.36
Number of General physicians per 10,000 persons 6.96 4.33
Percent of Medicare Beneficiaries in Total Population 0.14 0.04
Proportion of People Residing in Medically Underserved Areas 0.56 0.45
Deprivation score# −0.01 2.79
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A total of 70,201 elderly patients with hypertension and chronic kidney disease resided in 2,981 counties.

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Deprivation score was measured by Townsend index, which incorporating unemployment rate, percentage of households without care ownership, home ownership and overcrowding.