Race-sex differences in the management of hyperlipidemia: the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lipid management is less aggressive in blacks than whites and women than men.

Purpose

To examine whether differences in lipid management for race-sex groups compared to white men are due to factors influencing health services utilization or physician prescribing patterns.

Methods

Because coronary heart disease (CHD) risk influences physician prescribing, Adult Treatment Panel III CHD risk categories were constructed using baseline data from REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study participants (recruited 2003-2007). Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hyperlipidemia were examined for race-sex groups across CHD risk categories. Multivariable models conducted in 2013 estimated prevalence ratios adjusted for predisposing, enab

SUBMITTER: Safford MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422177 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature