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Increase aspirin use for secondary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease — HDS‑08 Data

Status: Little or no detectable change

  Little or no detectable change

Most Recent Data:
69.0 percent (2017-20) *

Target:
69.4 percent  *

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
63.5 percent of adults aged 40 years and over with a history of cardiovascular disease were using aspirin in 2013-16  *

Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.

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Confidence Interval (CI) not available Standard Error (SE) not available Confidence Interval (CI) and Standard Error (SE) are not available

Adults with cardiovascular disease using aspirin to prevent recurrent cardiovascular events, 2013-16 to 2017-20 * 
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2013-16 2017-20
Total
63.5
CI 60.4 / 66.5
SE 2.116
69.0
CI 63.6 / 74.1
SE 4.081