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Do gender and race impact the use of antithrombotic therapy in patients with stroke/TIA?

From the Stroke Program (Drs. Lisabeth and Brown), University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor; Michigan Peer Review Organization (MPRO) (Dr. Roychoudhury), Farmington Hills; and Stroke Program (Dr. Levine), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Lynda Lisabeth, NI3D19–300 North Ingalls, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–0489; e-mail: llisabet{at}umich.edu

The authors examined the relationships between sex and race and antithrombotics prescribed at discharge in the Michigan Medicare population using retrospective medical record abstraction (n = 2,715) for the period January 1, 2001, to June 30, 2001. There were no differences in the use of antithrombotics at discharge by race or sex and no differences in the prescribing of aspirin, warfarin, aspirin/extended release dipyridamole, or clopidogrel by race or sex after adjustment for confounders.

Received November 26, 2003. Accepted in final form February 10, 2004.

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