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Table 1 The prevalence of one or more (DP ≥ 1) and five or more (DP ≥ 5) dispensed drugs related to age and gender.

From: Dispensed drugs and multiple medications in the Swedish population: an individual-based register study

 

DP ≥ 1

DP ≥ 5

RR for females

 

All

Females

Males

All

Females

Males

DP ≥ 1

DP ≥ 5

Age

n = 6,146,679

3,466,243

2,680,436

2,227,152

1,356,934

870,218

  

0–9

57.3

55.8

58.8

6.6

5.7

7.3

0.9

0.8

10–19

49.0

58.4

40.1

6.2

8.3

4.1

1.5

2.0

20–29

58.4

76.4

41.2

9.9

15.2

5.0

1.8

3.1

30–39

62.5

75.3

50.3

13.9

19.7

8.4

1.5

2.3

40–49

64.3

73.3

55.6

18.4

23.8

13.2

1.3

1.8

50–59

75.8

82.5

69.3

30.2

36.3

24.3

1.2

1.5

60–69

80.1

83.6

76.5

42.3

46.8

37.7

1.1

1.2

70–79

90.8

92.3

89.0

62.4

65.5

58.7

1.0

1.1

80–89

94.5

95.1

93.5

75.1

77.3

71.6

1.0

1.1

90-

93.3

93.6

92.4

77.7

79.4

73.3

1.0

1.1

Total

67.4

75.6

59.3

24.4

29.6

19.2

1.3

1.5

  1. The prevalence (%) of DP ≥ 1 and DP ≥ 5 related to age and gender and the relative risk (RR) for females vs. males with DP ≥ 1 and DP ≥ 5 in Sweden in 2006.