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Table 4 The association between medication adherence and mortality for different cut-offs of the PDC.

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

PDC cut-off for adherence

Summary measure OR (95% CI)

B-blocker OR (95% CI)

Statin OR (95% CI)

ACE-inhibitor OR (95% CI)

≥0.50

0.49 (0.30–0.80)

0.93 (0.55–1.56)

0.63 (0.34–1.15)

0.48 (0.28–0.81)

≥0.60

0.46 (0.31–0.67)

0.83 (0.55–1.26)

0.60 (0.37–0.98)

0.48 (0.31–0.73)

≥0.70

0.45 (0.33–0.61)

0.88 (0.61–1.28)

0.58 (0.38–0.88)

0.47 (0.32–0.69)

≥0.80

0.52 (0.39–0.69)

0.86 (0.61–1.22)

0.59 (0.41–0.87)

0.55 (0.38–0.78)

≥0.90

0.66 (0.51–0.86)

0.83 (0.60–1.14)

0.66 (0.47–0.93)

0.61 (0.43–0.85)