European journal of preventive cardiology
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Multicenter Study Pragmatic Clinical Trial
Polypill-based therapy likely to reduce ethnic inequities in use of cardiovascular preventive medications: Findings from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the consistency of the proportional effect of fixed-dose combination therapy (the 'polypill') on the use of recommended cardiovascular preventative medications among indigenous Māori and non-indigenous adults in New Zealand. ⋯ Polypill-based care is likely to reduce absolute inequities between Māori and non-Māori in the use of recommended cardiovascular preventative medications given baseline absolute differences and the consistency of the proportional effect of this intervention by ethnicity in this pragmatic trial in primary care.