Table 6 Level of morbidity in patients prescribed hypnotics/anxiolytics according to age and sex
Age groups | Patients with no chronic disease | Patients with one chronic disease | Multimorbid patients – two or more chronic diseases | ORs (with 95 % CIs) for the likelihood of being prescribed a hypnotic and/or an anxiolytic when multimorbid | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No of patients | Men | Women | No of patients | Men | Women | No of patients | Men | Women | Prevalence of Multimorbidity (%) | All patients | Men | Women | |
<1–19 | 182 | 72 | 110 | 312 | 167 | 145 | 354 | 150 | 204 | 42 | 6.7 (5.8–7.7) | 5.8 (4.7–7.1) | 7.7 (6.4–9.3) |
20–29 | 238 | 84 | 154 | 779 | 337 | 442 | 1,731 | 573 | 1,158 | 63 | 6.5 (6.0–7.1) | 6.5 (5.7–7.4) | 6.3 (5.6–7.0) |
30–39 | 222 | 93 | 129 | 875 | 388 | 487 | 2,974 | 999 | 1,975 | 73 | 7.1 (6.6–7.6) | 6.8 (6.0–7.6) | 6.8 (6.2–7.5) |
40–49 | 140 | 51 | 89 | 687 | 288 | 399 | 4,054 | 1,287 | 2,767 | 83 | 7.7 (7.1–8.3) | 7.2 (6.3–8.1) | 7.3 (6.6–8.1) |
50–59 | 126 | 52 | 74 | 518 | 225 | 293 | 5,510 | 1,817 | 3,693 | 89 | 9.4 (8.6–10.2) | 8.0 (7.0–9.1) | 9.7 (8.6–10.9) |
60–69 | 66 | 26 | 40 | 302 | 130 | 172 | 5,014 | 1,782 | 3,232 | 93 | 13.4 (12.0–15.0) | 10.9 (9.2–12.9) | 15.6 (13.5–18.1) |
70–79 | 30 | 11 | 19 | 135 | 59 | 76 | 3,783 | 1,318 | 2,465 | 96 | 20.0 (17.0–23.6) | 15.0 (11.7–19.2) | 25.1 (20.3–31.2) |
80+ | 14 | 7 | 7 | 85 | 26 | 59 | 2,795 | 980 | 1,815 | 97 | 45.6 (37.2–56.0) | 41.2 (28.9–58.7) | 51.2 (39.7–66.0) |
Total | 1,018 | 396 | 622 | 3,693 | 1,620 | 2,073 | 26,215 | 8,906 | 17,309 | 85 | 14.9 (14.4–15.4) | 12.7 (12.0–13.3) | 16.0 (15.4–16.7) |