Table 4.
The association between environmental characteristics and average ACEIs/ARBs adherence at county level using Geographically Weighted Regression (n=1,522)
| County level Variable* |
Mean of Estimate |
Standard Error |
Min | Lower Quartile |
Median | Upper Quartile |
Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of General physicians per 10,000 persons | 0.0008 | 0.0006 | 0.0000 | 0.0003 | 0.0006 | 0.0013 | 0.0026 |
| Percent of Medicare Beneficiaries in Total Population | 0.1738 | 0.0911 | 0.0126 | 0.0932 | 0.1608 | 0.2415 | 0.3609 |
| Proportion of People Residing in Medically Underserved Areas | −0.0178 | 0.0075 | −0.0278 | −0.0252 | −0.0189 | −0.0116 | −0.0007 |
| Deprivation score# | −0.0028 | 0.0008 | −0.0057 | −0.0032 | −0.0028 | −0.0023 | −0.0013 |
*
Values for counties with 10 or fewer patients were excluded.
#
Deprivation score was measured by Townsend index, which incorporated unemployment rate, percentage of households without care ownership, home ownership and overcrowding.