Race, ethnicity, and sociocultural characteristics predict noncompliance with lipid-lowering medications

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1249-1255

  Kaplan, Robert C ^a   Bhalodkar, Narendra C ^b   Brown Jr , Edward J ^b   White, Jessica ^a   Brown, David L ^a,c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRONX LEBANON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyslipidemia; Ethnicity; Race

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIVORCE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SELF EVALUATION; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PYRROLES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIMVASTATIN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 7944224013     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.04.041     Document Type: Article

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