Table 6 Average individual level health gain associated with five-years of double therapy with (3%) and without (0%) discounting to potentially facilitate more informed patient-clinician discussions around medication use (the values at 0% discount rate are in brackets)

From: Preventive Pharmacotherapy for Cardiovascular Disease: A Modelling Study Considering Health Gain, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness when Stratifying by Absolute Risk

Five-year cumulative absolute risk strata

Quality-adjusted healthy months of life gained for the average cohort member from the offer of screening (intention-to-treat style of analysis)

Quality-adjusted healthy months of life gained for those who respond to the screening offer and commence treatment*

Non-Māori

Māori

Non-Māori

Māori

>20%

3.5 (5.2)

2.9 (4.1)

4.9 (7.3)

4.1 (5.8)

>15, ≤20%

2.4 (3.7)

2.1 (3.1)

3.4 (5.3)

3.0 (4.4)

>10, ≤15%

1.6 (2.6)

1.5 (2.2)

2.3 (3.6)

2.1 (3.1)

>5, ≤10%

0.8 (1.4)

0.9 (1.3)

1.2 (1.9)

1.2 (1.9)

>0, ≤5%

0.4 (0.7)

0.5 (0.7)

0.6 (1.0)

0.7 (1.0)

  1. *Albeit with the reduction in adherence as in the base-case model of 22.5% over the five-year period of treatment.