Table 1. Descriptive statistics, Health Search CSD–LPD (HS) 2000-2009. Statistics obtained in Stata with command sutex.

Variable / Mean / Std. Dev. / Min. / Max.
Copay regions / 0.745 / 0.436 / 0 / 1
Female / 0.58 / 0.494 / 0 / 1
Age / 66.674 / 10.324 / 25 / 85
North-West / 0.245 / 0.43 / 0 / 1
North-East / 0.249 / 0.433 / 0 / 1
Center / 0.145 / 0.352 / 0 / 1
South and Islands / 0.361 / 0.48 / 0 / 1
Residents North-West (100.000) / 0.26 / 1.31 / 0 / 271
Residents North-East (100.000) / 0.30 / 0.86 / 0 / 13
Residents Center (100.000) / 1.04 / 4.98 / 0 / 27
Residents South and Islands (100.000) / 1.01 / 2.73 / 0 / 27
Diabetes / 0.083 / 0.275 / 0 / 1
Hypertension / 0.211 / 0.408 / 0 / 1
TIA / 0.015 / 0.12 / 0 / 1
PTCA / 0.006 / 0.076 / 0 / 1
AMI / 0.015 / 0.123 / 0 / 1
Stroke / 0.005 / 0.068 / 0 / 1
Angina / 0.015 / 0.123 / 0 / 1
Charlson index 0 / 0.652 / 0.476 / 0 / 1
Charlson index 1 / 0.233 / 0.423 / 0 / 1
Charlson index 2 / 0.074 / 0.262 / 0 / 1
Charlson index 3 / 0.03 / 0.17 / 0 / 1
Charlson index 4 and more / 0.01 / 0.101 / 0 / 1
Copay exemption - income / 0.082 / 0.275 / 0 / 1
Copay exemption - income and age / 0.035 / 0.184 / 0 / 1
Copay exemption - pathology / 0.293 / 0.455 / 0 / 1
Copay exemption - disability / 0.056 / 0.23 / 0 / 1
Copay exemption - other / 0.014 / 0.116 / 0 / 1
Length of Statin therapy (quarters) / 13.608 / 9.629 / 1 / 40
Simvastatin / 0.348 / 0.476 / 0 / 1
Lovastatin / 0.019 / 0.138 / 0 / 1
Pravastatin / 0.124 / 0.33 / 0 / 1
Fluvastatin / 0.037 / 0.188 / 0 / 1
Atorvastatin / 0.29 / 0.454 / 0 / 1
Rosuvastatin / 0.149 / 0.356 / 0 / 1
Simva- Ezetimbe / 0.017 / 0.13 / 0 / 1
Simva-Acetyl / 0.001 / 0.007 / 0 / 1
mix / 0.015 / 0.121 / 0 / 1
mg Simvastatin / 6.424 / 10.091 / 0 / 72
mg Lovastatin / 0.406 / 3.163 / 0 / 67
mg Pravastatin / 2.843 / 8.414 / 0 / 70
mg Fluvastatin / 1.869 / 11.136 / 0 / 80
mg Atorvastatin / 3.254 / 6.121 / 0 / 80
mg Rosuvastatin / 1.379 / 3.68 / 0 / 62
mg Simva-Ezetimbe / 0.343 / 2.862 / 0 / 65
mg Simva-Acetyl / 0.002 / 0.192 / 0 / 40
mgmix / 0.245 / 2.687 / 0 / 80
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