ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2017
A National Assessment of Medication Adherence to Statins by the Racial Composition of Neighborhoods.
Article in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cost-sharing and adherence, clinical outcomes, health care utilization, and costs: A systematic literature review.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2023Pooled it
- Outcomes among patients with peripheral artery disease in the Aspirin Dosing: A Patient-Centric Trial Assessing Benefits and Long-Term Effectiveness (ADAPTABLE) study.Vascular medicine (London, England) · 2023Trial
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- Differences in GLP-1 RA medication adherence across place-based variables in patients with diabetes living in Wisconsin.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2025Article
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- More US Pharmacies Closed Than Opened In 2018-21; Independent Pharmacies, Those In Black, Latinx Communities Most At Risk.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2024Article
- Abandonment of prescriptions in medically underserved areas: Primary medication non-adherence in community pharmacies in the delta region of the United States.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2024Article
- Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Status and Prescription Fill Patterns Among Patients With Heart Failure.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Racial Disparities in Medication Adherence Barriers: Pediatric Epilepsy as an Exemplar.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2022Observational
- Racial disparities in provider-patient communication of incidental medical findings.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Prevalence of statin utilization and adherence among privately insured subjects in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2021Article
- Adherence to Hypertension Medications and Lifestyle Recommendations among Underserved African American Middle-Aged and Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Contraceptive Desert? Black-White Differences in Characteristics of Nearby Pharmacies.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2019Article
- Potentially inappropriate medication use among hypertensive older African-American adults.BMC geriatrics · 2018Observational
- Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With Low Treatment Adherence in African American Individuals With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.Journal of clinical rheumatology : practical reports on rheumatic & musculoskeletal diseases · 2018Article
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- Non-adherence to medication regimens among older African-American adults.BMC geriatrics · 2017Article
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- ENHANCE-(Electronic Hydroxyurea Adherence): A Protocol to Increase Hydroxyurea Adherence in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease.JMIR research protocols · 2016Article
- Statin nonadherence in Latino and noncitizen neighborhoods in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, 2012-2016.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
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Abstract
Adherence to statins is lower in black and Hispanic patients and is linked to racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular mortality. Poverty, education, and prescription coverage differentials are typically invoked to explain adherence disparities, but analyses at the level of neighborhoods and their pharmacies may provide additional insights. Among individuals filling new statin prescriptions in a national pharmacy chain (N = 326,171), we compared adherence for patients residing in mostly minority neighborhoods to those living in mainly white areas. In analyses adjusting for patient-level factors associated with poor adherence, including age, insurance, payer, prescription cost, and convenience, patients residing in black and Hispanic neighborhoods had 2-3 weeks less statin therapy over 1 year, a pattern not seen in Asian areas. In black and Hispanic neighborhoods, good adherence was associated with co-pays under $10, the use of 90-day refills, and payers other than Medicaid. Efforts to improve medication adherence for vulnerable populations may benefit from interventions at the level of local pharmacies, as well as medication benefit redesign.
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