MedPage Today September 24, 2024
— Negative results overall hid a benefit for some who won the insurance lottery in Oregon
Getting onto Medicaid might not improve cardiovascular risk factors universally, but it did for some individuals, as secondary analysis of a randomized trial showed.
Previously uninsured, low-income individuals who won a lottery slot into Medicaid in Oregon had significantly lowered systolic blood pressure after becoming insured as compared with the overall population in one subgroup: those predicted to benefit highly based on their baseline characteristics (-4.96 mm Hg, P<0.001).
That same group also had significantly improved glycemic control marked by lower HbA1c, although the effect size was “not clinically meaningful” (-0.12%, 95% CI -0.25% to -0.01%), researchers led by Kosuke Inoue, MD, PhD, of...
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