Table 1.

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

	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

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.