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About the National Data
Data
Baseline: 63.5 percent of adults aged 40 years and over with a history of cardiovascular disease were using aspirin in 2013-16
Target: 69.4 percent
Methodology
Questions used to obtain the national baseline data
From the 2013-2014 and 2015-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey:
Numerator:
Doctors and other health care providers sometimes recommend that {you take/SP takes) a low-dose aspirin each day to prevent heart attacks, strokes, or cancer. {Have you/Has SP} ever been told to do this?- Yes
- No
- Refused
- Don't know
- Yes
- No
- Sometimes
- Stopped aspirin use due to side effects
- Refused
- Don't know
- Yes
- No
- Refused
- Don't know
[NUMERATOR AND DENOMINATOR:]
Has a doctor or other health professional ever told {you/SP} that {you/s/he} . . .had angina, also called angina pectoris?- Yes
- No
- Refused
- Don't know
- Yes
- No
- Refused
- Don't know
- Yes
- No
- Refused
- Don't know
- Yes
- No
- Refused
- Don't know
Methodology notes
Includes examined adults aged 40 years and over with a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD). A history of CVD is defined as an answer of "yes" to any of the NUMERATOR AND DENOMINATOR questions.
Aspirin use was defined as a response of "yes" or "sometimes" to taking aspirin as recommended by a health care professional, self initiated aspirin use or aspirin/antiplatelet use identified in the prescription medication data files. Participants who reported that they "stopped aspirin use due to side effects" or were taking an anticoagulant (as identified in the Rx medication files) but not taking aspirin/antiplatelets were excluded as being at increased risk for bleeding.
Age-adjustment notes
This Indicator uses Age-Adjustment Groups:
- Total: 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Sex: 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Race/Ethnicity: 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Educational Attainment: 25-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Family Income (percent poverty threshold): 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Health Insurance Status: 40-49, 50-59, 60-64
- Marital Status: 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Country of Birth: 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Veteran Status: 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Activity Limitations: 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Obesity Status: 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
- Diabetes Status: 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
History
The baseline was revised from 64.2% to 63.5% due to a correction in the survey weight from the exam to the interview subsample weight for all template lines except obesity. Coding corrections were also made to the activity limitations data lines. The target was revised from 69.7% to 69.4% using the original target setting method.