Long-term patiromer adherence and renin-angiotensin aldosterone system inhibitor utilization: A retrospective study

Table 1 Baseline population characteristics

	Count	Mean or percent	SD
Number of patients taking patiromer	13447
Female	5527	41%
Average age1		62	13
Age < 45	1293	10%
45 ≤ age < 55	1963	15%
55 ≤ age < 65	3388	25%
65 ≤ age < 75	3825	28%
75 ≤ age < 85	2978	22%
Pharmacy benefit manager plan	1568	12%
Health insurance exchange commercial plan	74	1%
Other commercial plan	444	3%
Cash plan	334	2%
Employer group plan	1092	8%
Medicaid plan	1045	8%
Medicare plan	7567	56%
Other plan	1323	10%
Number of unique daily-use medications in pre-index period		9.5	5.3
Avg total pre-index out-of-pocket cost per month any prescription ($)		45.6	82
Community census information from patient’s 3-digit ZIP code
Unemployment		7%	0.019
White		78%	0.221
Other race		22%	0.221
Poverty		14%	0.046
Disabled		10%	0.030
Not high school graduate		14%	0.058
High school graduate		27%	0.061
Some college		29%	0.042
Bachelors		19%	0.052
At least masters		12%	0.049
Per capita income		$30327	$7770
Population per square mile		2498	6772

¹Age based only on year of birth.

Years before 1940 were set to 1940 by Symphony Health. ZIP: Zone improvement plan.