Are doctors using more preventive medication for cardiovascular disease? A Swedish cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite decreasing mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD), there are persistent inequities in mortality between socioeconomic groups. Primary preventative medications reduce mortality in CVD; thus, inequitable treatments will contribute to unequal outcomes. Physicians might contribute to inequality by prescribing preventative medication for CVD to themselves in a biased manner.

Aim

To determine whether primary medications for preventing CVD were prescribed inequitably between physicians and non-physicians.

Design and setting

This retrospective study retrieved registry data on prescribed medications for all physicians in Sweden aged 45-74 years, during 2013, and for reference non-physician individuals, matched by sex, age, residence, and level of educat

SUBMITTER: Lillqvist J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10478618 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature