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- - The study highlights a connection between insurance stability and chronic disease management, particularly in hypertension, with racial and ethnic disparities impacting health outcomes.
- - Researchers analyzed data from nearly 44,000 adults in Massachusetts with hypertension over a nine-year period, finding that uninsured black patients had the worst blood pressure control compared to other groups.
- - The findings suggest that having stable health insurance is crucial for better hypertension management, underscoring the need for policies that promote insurance stability, especially among racial and ethnic minorities.
Article Abstract
Background: Stable health insurance is often associated with better chronic disease care and outcomes. Racial/ethnic health disparities in outcomes are prevalent and may be associated with insurance instability, particularly in the context of health insurance reform.
Methods: We examined whether insurance instability was associated with uncontrolled blood pressure (UBP) and whether this association varied by race/ethnicity. We used a retrospective longitudinal observational cohort study of patients diagnosed with hypertension who obtained care within two health systems in Massachusetts. We measured the UBP, insurance instability, and race of 43,785 adult primary care patients, age 21-64 with visits from 1/2005-12/2013.
Results: We found higher rates of UBP for blacks and Hispanics at each time point over the entire 9 years. Insurance instability was associated with greater rates of UBP. Always uninsured black patients fared worst, while white and Hispanic patients with consistent public insurance fared best.
Conclusions: Stable insurance of any type was associated with better hypertension control than no or unstable insurance.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077125 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05095-8 | DOI Listing |
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