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Table 3 The association between medication adherence and mortality.

From: Adherence to cardioprotective medications and mortality among patients with diabetes and ischemic heart disease

Adherence measure

N

Percent adherent (PDC ≥ 0.80)

All-cause mortality

   

Unadjusted OR (95% CI)

Adjusted OR (95% CI)

Summary measure

3696

80.3%

0.52 (0.40–0.68)

0.52 (0.39–0.69)

β-blocker medications

2440

76.6%

0.72 (0.52–1.00)

0.86 (0.61–1.22)

Statin medications

2833

81.9%

0.65 (0.45–0.94)

0.59 (0.41–0.87)

ACE-inhibitor medications

2379

80.0%

0.56 (0.40–0.80)

0.55 (0.38–0.78)