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Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2023 Oct 1;60(5):1549–1579. doi: 10.1215/00703370-10965990

Fig. 2 — Age-standardized percentage of U.S. men and women taking zero, one, two, three, four, and five or more key prescription drugs (a) for the total population in 1996–2019 and (b) by race and ethnicity in 2006–2019. The key prescription drugs are antineoplastics, biologicals and immunologic agents, cardiovascular agents, CNS agents, coagulation modifiers, gastrointestinal agents, genitourinary tract agents, hormones and hormone modifiers, respiratory agents, psychotherapeutic agents, and metabolic agents. Source: Author’s analysis of data from the MEPS, 1996–2019.

Fig. 2 — Age-standardized percentage of U.S. men and women taking zero, one, two, three, four, and five or more key prescription drugs (a) for the total population in 1996–2019 and (b) by race and ethnicity in 2006–2019. The key prescription drugs are antineoplastics, biologicals and immunologic agents, cardiovascular agents, CNS agents, coagulation modifiers, gastrointestinal agents, genitourinary tract agents, hormones and hormone modifiers, respiratory agents, psychotherapeutic agents, and metabolic agents. Source: Author’s analysis of data from the MEPS, 1996–2019.