Asian patients may receive inferior care

EDITOR—Patel et al report an ecological study which shows that at the practice level the proportion of patients who are South Asian is a significant determinant of the level of prescriptions for lipid lowering drugs.1 Presumably this means that South Asian patients, even though they are more likely either to have heart disease or to be at higher risk of heart disease, are less likely to receive appropriate treatment with lipid lowering drugs.

We reported …