Associations between education level, blood-lipid measurements and statin treatment in a Danish primary health care population from 2000 to 2018

Figures & data

Table 1. Characteristics of Population at First Blood Sample Collection.

EDUCATION GROUP		ISCED 1	ISCED 2	ISCSED 3	Total
(POPULATION)		(162,025)	(258,991)	(232,077)	(653,093)
Age (years)	Mean (SD)	57.24 (14.57)	53.06 (13.58)	49.19 (13.12)	52.72 (14.02)
Migrations	Mean (SD)	0.054 (0.358)	0.070 (0.404)	0.135 (0.554)	0.089 (0.455)
Female	N (%)	91,197 (56.3)	126,241 (48.7)	121,890 (52.5)	339,328 (52.0)
One pregnancy^1	N (%)	4,618 (5.1)	12,066 (9.6)	16,419 (13.5)	33,103 (5.1)
≥Two pregnancies^1	N (%)	4,587 (5.0)	11,686 (9.3)	21,098 (17.3)	37,371 (5.7)
Acute Myocardial Infarction	N (%)	4,848 (3.0)	5,237 (2.0)	2,419 (1.0)	12,504 (1.9)
Coronary Artery Disease	N (%)	8,948 (5.5)	9,593 (3.7)	5,292 (2.3)	23,833 (3.6)
Diabetes Mellites Type 2	N (%)	6,736 (4.2)	6,748 (2.6)	3,206 (1.4)	16,690 (2.6)
Heart Failure	N (%)	3,734 (2.3)	3,297 (1.3)	1,590 (0.7)	8,621 (1.3)
Ischemic Stroke	N (%)	4,620 (2.9)	5,183 (2.0)	3,142 (1.4)	12,945 (2.0)
Charlson ≥3	N (%)	45,116 (27.8)	48,792 (18.8)	24,338 (10.5)	118,246 (18.1)
Danish Ethnicity	N (%)	136,860 (84.5)	225,460 (87.1)	201,417 (86.8)	563,737 (86.3)

Table 1: Characteristics were reported for each patient included in the study at the time of the first blood sample measurement.

Education group: ISCED 1 :low education level; ISCED 2: intermediate education level; ISCED 3: High education level.

¹ Pregnancy: Pregnancies were reported as a percentage of total population of women.

Migrations: Calculated as the mean number of migrations.

Charlson ≥3: All patients with a Charlson Comorbidity Index of 3 or more.

Danish Ethnicity: All patients who weren’t immigrants or descendants of immigrants.

Figure 1. Each line represents an education group’s frequency of measurement as a percentage of the group’s total population per year.

Figure 2. Each line represents an education group’s prevalence of treatment as a percentage of the total population of that group per year.

Figure 3. Each line represents the mean age a certain year of each education group at the first statin prescription an education group per year. The coloured areas represent 95% confidence intervals.

Figure 4. Each line represents an education group’s comorbidity prevalence at treatment-initiation as a percentage of all patients with new statin prescription per year.