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Disparities in Trends of Hospitalization for Potentially Preventable Chronic Conditions Among African Americans During the 1990s: Implications and Benchmarks

Sharon K. Davis, PhD, MEd, MPA, Yong Liu, MS and Gary H. Gibbons, MD

The authors are with the Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga. Sharon K. Davis and Yong Liu are with the Social Epidemiology Research Division, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, and the Cardiovascular Research Institute. Gary H. Gibbons is with the Department of Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Institute.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Secular trends in standardized crude admission rates associated with potentially preventable hospitalizations among men (a) and women (b) aged 21–64 years for selected diabetes- and cardiovascular-related chronic conditions, by race/ethnicity: California, 1991–1998.

Note. The P value reflects the significance level associated with the main effect variable of time, derived from separate sex-specific, age-adjusted Poisson regression models for each of the 4 conditions.

 




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